Green challenges in the data center

DatacenterDynamics (Mar 7 2011) Power and Cooling , Fossil Fuel , Geothermal , Solar , Wind , Cloud Computing

1. “A clean and secure supply of power is critical to today’s data centers and IT facilities” – and there’s certainly no arguing with the evident truth of that statement from Michael Adams, AEG Power Solutions’ global VP of data and IT. With Greenpeace estimating in its recent report, titled Cloud Computing and its Contribution to Climate Change, that by 2020 data center power consumption could approach 2m MW hours, the industry has little choice but to look beyond simple energy efficiencies to examine the kind of electricity it will be using in future. (Read Full Article)

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