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This chapter gives a high-level overview of multi-tenant data centers which are an important part of the data center industry. Their efficiency has fallen behind that of owner-operated data centers due to the use of an uncoordinated model. Coordinated power management is proposed as a solution to improve the efficiency of multi-tenant data centers. To achieve coordinated power management, the operators must address the dynamic natures of both the supply and demand sides of the multi-tenant data center (in terms of computation which is a function of energy consumption). The supply side comprises the grid, on-site renewables, storage (batteries), and backup generator, whereas the demand side comprises the sum of individual demands from tenants.

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  1. 1.

    For instance, the world’s largest (retail) multi-tenant data center for physical resources is Equinix [21].

  2. 2.

    Cloud providers themselves can be tenants of multi-tenant data centers with physical resources, e.g., Amazon Web Services house some servers in multi-tenant data centers around the world to reduce latency [22].

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    Hereafter, we use multi-tenant data center operator and operator interchangeably.

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