Energy Star for Data Centers: Help or Hype?

Data Center Knowledge (Jul 6 2010) Servers

1. David Dunn is Senior Vice President of Marketing and Business Development for CoreSite, which operates more than two million square feet of wholesale data center and colocation space. Approximately half of the nation’s electricity consumption comes from office and industrial buildings. Given the rising costs associated with direct and indirect energy consumption, it’s imperative that the public and private sectors focus on overall energy consumption and efficiency benchmarking. Data centers and their associated electrical consumption continue to grow as communications, information processing and storage demand increase rapidly. In 2006, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimated that data centers represented approximately 1.5 percent of the United State’s total electrical demand (to the tune of $4.5 billion) and that the combined data center consumption could double by 2011. (Read Full Article)

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