Secret to saving electricity costs in Bay Area Data Centers, Move!!!

greenm3.com (Feb 11 2010)

1. I am back in the bay area and it is amazing the number of server hugging executive decision makers want to have their IT equipment within driving distance. They have driven up the price of colocation space in the bay area, and ironically the colocation companies don’t want you to be energy efficient, they want you to be energy hogs. You ever wonder why you are stuck not being to do simple things in colocation space like hot and cold aisles. What do you do to save energy costs? MOVE out of the bay area!!! You look at Google, Apple, and Facebook to reduce costs and scale they move out of the bay area. Here is a case in point of how the server hugging behavior blinds people to save money. (Read Full Article)

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