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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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UK: a new approach to data centre efficiency
EXEC DIGITAL UK (Sep 18 2009) Carbon Footprint , Carbon Reduction Commitment , Carbon Tax
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In January 2010, The Carbon Reduction Commitment will come in to place as the first mandatory carbon trading scheme in the UK. All companies that use more than 6000 MWh per year of electricity will be affected by the initiative, so it is more important than ever that data centre managers assess their environmental impact. For this reason, it is essential that organisations start now to assess their existing technology implementations and data centre designs to ensure that they can continue to support the needs of their customers without breaching regulations and facing harsh penalties.
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