The Coming "C" Change in Datacenters

HPCwire (Jun 15 2010) Monitoring , Cap and Trade , Carbon Footprint , Emissions , Fossil Fuel

1. Recently, I was at the Uptime Institute in New York and had several conversations about carbon dioxide (CO2) management for datacenters. Energy consumed by US datacenters in 2010 will reach 3 percent of overall US energy production. This will double in about five years given that the annual growth in datacenter energy consumption is 10 percent. Increases in datacenter CO2 emissions should mirror energy consumption increases since most datacenters will be unable to convert to greener, cleaner, renewable energy sources. The good folks at the Uptime Institute estimate that datacenter CO2 emissions will quadruple between 2010 and 2020 (Read Full Article)

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