Companies Not Helping Themselves With Data Centre Efficiency

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• Cisco
• Pacific Gas & Electric
• The Green Grid
• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

1. Green Grid research reports that most companies are not offering incentives to their employees to help increase energy efficiency. Two-thirds of enterprises that deploy data centres currently have no corporate incentives in place for increasing energy efficiency in those IT systems, industry research made public on 4 Feb by The Green Grid reported. This equates with the fact that most companies are not currently offering incentives to their employees to help increase energy efficiency, even though doing so could mean substantial bottom-line and environmental results, the report said. "Incentives do not have to be monetary to be effective; ... (Read Full Article)
   
   

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