Is Your Data Center Draining Your Bottom Line?

Data Center Knowledge (Nov 30 2009) Carbon Footprint , Cloud Computing , Servers

1. Data center energy costs as a percent of total revenue are at an all time high. In fact, energy costs are emerging as the second highest operating cost in the IT organization, behind labor. A typical one-megawatt data center consumes 16 million kilowatt-hours of electricity a year—roughly equivalent to the energy consumed by 1400 average U.S. households. This white paper looks at two key ways that data center managers can improve end -to-­end energy efficiency: by changing the voltage of power distribution and by taking advantage of new, high-efficiency, multi-mode uninterruptible power systems (UPSs). (Read Full Article)

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