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Categories
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Data Center Design:
Construction,
Container,
Data Center Outages,
Monitoring,
Power and Cooling
Policy: Cap and Trade, Carbon Footprint, Carbon Reduction Commitment, Carbon Tax, Emissions
Power: Biomass, Fossil Fuel, Fuel Cell, Geothermal, Hydro, Nuclear, Solar, Wind
Application: Cloud Computing, Grid Computing
Technology: Microblogging, Networking, Servers, Storage, Supercomputer
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The Economics of Data Center Energy Conservation
Relocate (Dec 16 2010)
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Energy conservation: it sounds great. And for the data center industry, which is increasingly pegged as an energy hog owing to its ever-growing demand for more power, it sounds even better. Conserving energy is not as simple a matter as it sounds, though. Economic forces can easily take conservation efforts and turn them on their heads: although a company (or another entity) goes to great lengths to increase efficiency, it may find that its overall power usage doesn’t go down much, if at all.
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