Green Data Centers: Is It Worth Running a “Losing” Race?
The “greening” of IT has become a focal point of public and industry attention, debate and innovation given the increasingly rapid advent of digitally-connected, post-industrial societies, or pockets of society in nations around the world. At the heart of this emerging, network-centric human environment are data centers, which are assuming aspects of public utilities due to the voracious demand for data and information. Electric power usage is a major operating cost for data centers, and data center power usage is growing rapidly, fueled by a confluence of powerful trends, including the rapid growth of smart grid systems, cloud computing, and the proliferation of connected consumer electronic (CE) devices. Rising power demand has data center operators, a group that includes many of highest profile names in the IT and telecoms industries, aggressively searching for ways to reduce electricity use. Adding significantly to this impetus are national and international policy initiatives that ...
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