Silicon Valley Power (SVP), the municipally owned and operated utility that provides energy to customers in Santa Clara, California, gave a total of US$1.2m in rebates for energy-efficiency measures taken by data center operators in its service area over the past 12 months. Mary Medeiros McEnroe, a public-benefit program manager at SVP who is one of the people overseeing the data center energy efficiency rebate program, said rebates went to operators of 10 data centers that chose to install syst