Engelina Jaspers: Open the Window to Sustainable Facilities

huffingtonpost.com (Mar 10 2010) Emissions

1. If you're not in the technology world, the term "data center" may sound a bit mundane. But these powerhouses are driving our digital lives - delivering your texts, storing your emails, executing your stock trades, and hosting your games. They are also a hotbed of innovation in sustainable technology. And the lessons learned in the data center have implications for other big technology infrastructure projects like hospitals, utilities and even entire cities. According to Gartner, the information and communications technology (ICT) sector is responsible for about two percent of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, including product manufacturing and use. Traditional data centers, on average, use several thousand megawatt hours per year. The 451 Group has stated that if data centers were classed as a separate industry, they would be the sixth-largest user of electricity. (Read Full Article)

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