What We Do
Climate Corps Projects
eBay – Gabrielle Maguire – 2011
Goals
Gabrielle Maguire spent her summer as an EDF Climate Corps fellow at the eBay headquarters in San Jose, California. She focused on demonstrating how eBay’s on-campus data storage centers could mirror the efficiency measures that it had already employed for its remote data centers.
Solutions
Maguire implemented an analysis of server port activity to determine server usage and enable a decommissioning of unused servers. She also identified savings opportunities by better controlling the air-flow of the cooling system.
Potential Impact
The combined annual savings of the projects could be $100,000 and reduce CO2 emissions by 328 metric tons per year. This will set a precedent for eBay’s on-campus data storage centers nation-wide.
At a glance
Industry: Internet, Software, Hardware and Technology Services
Project types:
- Commercial Energy Efficiency
Year: 2011
Location: San Jose, CA
About the fellow
Gabrielle Maguire
Tufts University
Gabrielle Maguire, a student at Tufts University, was hired as the 2011 EDF Climate Corps fellow at eBay.
