2. Categories

      Data Center Design: Construction, Container, Data Center Outages, Monitoring, Power and Cooling
      Policy: Cap and Trade, Carbon Footprint, Carbon Reduction Commitment, Carbon Tax, Emissions
      Power: Biomass, Fossil Fuel, Fuel Cell, Geothermal, Hydro, Nuclear, Solar, Wind
      Application: Cloud Computing, Grid Computing
      Technology: Microblogging, Networking, Servers, Storage, Supercomputer

  3. Quotes

    1. “ When the CIO is paying the power bill, really understands the impact of the decisions being made. ”
      By Dean Nelson

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  1. IT gets greener when CIOs must pay IT's energy bills

    Computerworld (Jun 8 2010) Cloud Computing

    1. IT gets greener when CIOs must pay IT's energy bills Want to really cut energy use in data centers? Give the CIO responsibility for paying IT's power bills. That would create a big incentive to invest in energy efficiency, according to Dean Nelson, senior director of global data center services at eBay Inc. "When the CIO is paying the power bill, [he] really understands the impact of the decisions being made," Nelson told an audience of data center managers at the Uptime Institute Symposium 2010 in New York last month. Most CIOs don't see utility bills, but eBay lumps its power bills in with its IT budget, and as a result the company has been very aggressive in cutting power consumption. Nelson said that eBay's newest data center, a $287 million facility in Salt Lake City, was "paid for by the cost savings we've achieved [elsewhere] within the last two years." (Read Full Article)

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