GE Invests In SynapSense To Reduce Data Center Energy Consumption

Published: 27-Jul-2010

GE will invest in and partner with SynapSense, a company that develops technology to improve energy efficiency and cut power and cooling costs in data centers, for digital energy services, the smart grid and ecomagination.

GE Energy Financial Services will join the current investors Emerald Technology Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Robert Bosch Venture Capital, American River Ventures, Nth Power and DFJ Frontier to invest a total of $5m for the development of SynapSense’s Data Center Monitoring, Adaptive Control and Energy Management technology.

According to the US Department of Energy, data centers account for 3% of power consumption in the US. GE hopes to cut data centre energy usage by collaborating with SynapSense on digital energy through GE Intelligent Platforms, a technology business that provides software, hardware, services in automation and embedded computing.

The integration of SynapSense’s technology with GE's Software and Control platform, which provides visibility into data center and other operational performance metrics, is expected to help data center operators cut energy use by continuously aligning cooling capacity with changes in IT load, saving up to 35% of cooling costs.

Peter Van Deventer, CEO of SynapSense, said: "Deepening our relationship with GE through this investment and commercial collaboration will play a major role in helping SynapSense deliver digital energy services that extend wireless control and resource management to the entire IT facility infrastructure."

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