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Manos: Industry Must Prepare for 'CO2K'
Data Center Knowledge (May 19 2010) Carbon Footprint , Carbon Tax , Emissions
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In calling the data center industry to prepare for carbon regulation, Mike Manos invoked the Y2K crisis of the late 1990s, warning that “CO2K” threatens to be similarly disruptive.
“It’s not a question of if (carbon regulation) will happen,” Manos said Tuesday in a keynote at the Uptime Institute Symposium 2010. “It will definitely happen. In the UK there are regulations that are already impacting data center operations. As an industry, we are ill-prepared for this.”
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