Manos: Prepare for Data Center Regulation

Data Center Knowledge (Jun 22 2009) Carbon Reduction Commitment , Emissions , Cloud Computing

1. Is data center regulation inevitable? Mike Manos of Digital Realty Trust is back from a visit to England, where he held a customer discussion about the Carbon Reduction Commitment (PDF), the UK’s version of cap-and-trade legislation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. “While not specifically aimed at data centers (it’s aimed at everyone) you can see that by its definition data centers will be significantly affected,” Mike writes. The CRC mechanism is expected to “go live” in April 2010, and include all organizations that consume more than 6,000 MWh in 2008. “One of the items that came out during the roundtable discussions was how generally disconnected government regulators are to the complexities of the data center,” Manos writes.”They want to view Data Centers as big bad energy using boxes that are all the same, when the differences in what is achievable from small data centers to mega-scale ... (Read Full Article)

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