Substantial Reduction of CO2 Emission with Silicon Photonics Using in Data Center
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https://doi.org/10.47611/jsrhs.v11i4.3680Keywords:
silicon photonic, CO2 emission, data center, electricity generation, greenhouse effectAbstract
High temperature in summer is more and more popular nowadays. This kind of unusual weathers come from the climate change due to the greenhouse gas emission. The politicians around the world are talking about the international cooperation to reduce the CO2 emission. Scientists are paying great efforts to find clean energy to replace the current fossil fuels. In this paper, a technology named silicon photonics is introduced which consumes less energy compared to the tradition techniques. The data centers, consuming about 2.5% of the total electricity generation in United States of America, are taken as an example to analyze the reduced CO2 emission. If the proportion of electricity consumption by data centers are assumed to be unchanged for the last 10 years and next 30 years, the total amount of the reduced CO2 emission is predicted to be incredibly 6789.13 million tons for the year from 2021 to 2050. This work shows that the wide application of low-energy-consumption technology can do the substantial contribution to cool down our planet.
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