AI-Based Energy-Saving for Fog Computing-Empowered Data Centers

With the rapid development of cloud computing services and big data applications, the number of data centers is proliferating, and with it, the problem of energy consumption in data centers is becoming more and more serious. Data center energy-saving has received more and more attention as a way to reduce carbon emissions and power costs. The main energy consumption of data centers lies in IT equipment energy consumption and end air conditioning energy consumption. In this paper, we propose a data center energy-saving application system based on fog computing architecture to reduce air conditioning energy consumption, and thus reduce data center energy consumption. Specifically, the intelligent module is placed in the fog node to take advantage of the low latency, proximal computing, and proximal storage of fog computing to shorten the network call link and improve the stability of acquiring energy-saving policies and the frequency of energy-saving regulation, thus solving the disadvantages of high latency and instability in the energy-saving approach of cloud computing architecture. The AI technology is used in the intelligent module to generate energy-saving strategies and remotely regulate the end air conditioners to achieve better energy-saving effects. This solves the shortcomings of the traditional manual regulation based on expert experience with low adjustment frequency and serious loss of cooling capacity of the terminal air conditioner. According to the experimental results, statistics show that compared with the traditional manual regulation based on expert experience, the data center energy-saving application based on fog computing can operate safely and efficiently, and reduce the PUE to 1.04. Compared with the AI energy-saving strategy based on cloud computing, the AI energy-saving strategy based on fog computing generates strategies faster and with lower latency, and the speed is increased by 29.84%.