Bank Shows How Green IT is Won One Watt at a Time

EnterpriseITplanet.com / Green (Jan 13 2011) Emissions , Servers

1. Very few data center operators have the budget to build an entirely new data center every few years. In fact, the vast majority of data centers are several years old and were therefore built at a time when few people cared about green IT, carbon emissions, PUE, or energy conservation at all. Now that green IT is much more important, legacy data center operators may wonder whether there is any room for them at the table. The answer, of course, is a resounding "Yes," and a recent highlight of one bank's Green IT efforts, BNY Mellon, is a great example. BNY Mellon's predecessor, Bank of New York, only started tracking energy efficiency in 2005. In 2007, the bank decided that it would only spend money on energy savings projects that paid off within 3 years. Since then, the bank has spent $8.2 million in capital spending on ... (Read Full Article)

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