Abstract
More and more internet data centers (IDCs) are trying to use renewable energy sources (RESs). However, powering IDCs with intermittent RESs presents a significant challenge. In addition, power and workload management in IDCs has great potential to reduce energy consumption, carbon footprints and energy cost. This study proposes an optimal load dispatch model for an IDC with battery energy storage system (BESS), which aims to lower the total costs. To accommodate the uncertainties of wind power, a data-driven distributionally robust optimization (DDRO) method is adopted. Then the column-and-constraint generation method (C&CG) is used to solve the corresponding optimization problem. In the experiment with the real-world traces of workload arrival and wholesale electricity price, three scheduling scenarios are investigated. Moreover, robust optimization and stochastic programming are implemented for comparison. Experimental results reveal that total costs of the IDC can be effectively reduced by adopting BESS and implementing workload dispatch. Meanwhile, the results also demonstrate the effectiveness of DDRO approach.
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