US Extends Energy Star Rating To Data Centres

Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Jun 8 2010) Carbon Footprint , Servers

1. The U.S. Environmental Agency, charged with seeing that enterprise IT devices such as servers and storage arrays become more environmentally friendly by using less electrical power, announced June 7 that it is extending its Energy Star programme to include entire data centers. Stand-alone data centers and buildings that house large data centres now can earn the familiar aqua-and-white Energy Star label if they pass the agency’s qualification requirements. To earn the label, data centres must be in the top 25 percent of their peers in energy efficiency, according to EPA’s energy performance scale. (Read Full Article)

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