Tackling Power Consumption Challenges in the Tech Industry: Apache Ozone's Role in Greener Data Centers

Abstract

As the digital economy expands, so does the infrastructure needed to support it. The tech industry has witnessed unprecedented growth in big data, cloud computing and AI. Underpinning all of these are massive data centers, the nerve centers of modern information technology. However, these data centers come at a cost a growing demand for power. Managing energy consumption has become one of the most pressing challenges in maintaining sustainable operations. This paper explores how the tech industry is grappling with the problem of increasing power consumption in data centers. It delves into how Apache Ozone, a scalable object store for big data workloads, is uniquely positioned to alleviate some of these issues. By supporting high-density storage and erasure coding, Apache Ozone can significantly reduce the data center footprint and, consequently, the power consumption and carbon emissions associated with running large-scale data infrastructure