The power of IT (it’s not all in energy consumption)
Over the weekend, a two-part article in the New York Times took issue with power consumption by data centers. There has been substantial reaction from the industry, including a response from GigaOM’s very own Katie Fehrenbacher. She assessed the argument and its rebuttals, pointing out that while the data center industry can perhaps do more, it has in fact been focused on energy efficiency for quite some time.