Systems and methods are provided for using historic input power periodic data from a
server in an IT
data center to
train a
machine learning (ML) model to obtain forecasted
power consumption data of the
server for a future time period.
Time windows of hotspots or coldspots are then identified in the forecasted
power consumption data, hotspots being defined as areas or regions of over-utilization in a
time series data, and coldspots being defined as areas or regions of under-utilization in a
time series data. The hotspots and coldspots are identified by calculating an exponential mean average (EMA) of the forecasted
power consumption data, taking points above the EMA as hotspots and points below the EMA as coldspots. The identified hotspots and coldspots can be used to schedule workloads for a
server or a
data center, to more efficiently plan existing workloads, or to introduce new workloads at more optimal time periods.