1. A greener data center should be built on truths, lying is not healthy

    A greener data center should be built on truths, lying is not healthy

    I don't know about you, but I am so tired of the over exaggeration of green data centers that I don't pay attention to most statements that data centers are green any more.  People think they are green simply because they are LEED certified, yet they provide so transparency on what they did to be certified. and whether the main reason they got certified was for marketing purposes.  There are quite a few people who have expressed how little the return is for saying their data center is LEED certified. Low PUEs are an exaggeration as well.  When you know who the people are behind the statements, one of the questions I ask myself is this type of person who regularly tells lies or the truths? NBC has post on an experiment done to see what happens if people tell the the truth for 10 weeks vs. a ...

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