Researchers at UC Santa Barbara’s Institute for Energy Efficiency (IEE) are working to bridge a looming imbalance between the 100-fold projected increase in data and the corresponding energy consumption of data centers used to manage and move it by 2025 and the 25-fold increase in computing energy efficiency expected during in the same period. IEE researchers are pursuing solutions that reduce the energy use associated with cooling loads, inefficient server use and wasteful computer processes. Among those investigators is Rich Wolski, a professor of computer science at UCSB and now, the campus’s inaugural holder of the Duval Family Presidential Chair in Energy Efficiency.
Wolski today was formally installed in the endowed position established with a gift from UC Santa Barbara Foundation Trustee Glenn ’80 and Bettina Duval. Matching funds were provided by the University of California for this important new chair.
