Virgin Media O2 has worked with EkkoSense to help achieve significant energy savings, cutting data centre cooling costs by over £1 million annually.
EkkoSense’s AI-driven software has enabled a 15% reduction in cooling energy, equivalent to 760 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions, according to location-based scope 2 accounting.
Virgin Media O2 utilised EkkoSense’s solution, which combines IoT sensors with advanced machine learning, to gain real-time insights into thermal, power, and capacity performance across 20 UK data centres.
Virgin Media O2 is working to reduce its energy usage across operations by leveraging technology and innovation to enhance energy efficiency and by sourcing renewable energy to minimise its environmental impact.
“In partnership with EkkoSense, we’ve optimised our data centres so they operate efficiently, using real-time data so we can make airflow and cooling improvements, resulting in significant cooling energy savings,” said Virgin Media O2 in a statement.
“With our software collecting thousands of data points every five minutes – adding to the millions of data points already collected, we’re able to continually refine the effectiveness of our machine learning algorithms for Virgin Media O2,” said EkkoSense. “Having access to this level of real-time insight means that Virgin Media O2’s operations team are able to track how their data centres are performing from a cooling, power and capacity perspective. They are also able to identify further energy optimisation opportunities in terms of cooling energy usage and overall savings.”
