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Article: Making Data Centers Lean and Green: IT decision makers are starting to take action to minimize the amount of electricity data centers and servers consume.
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- Insurance Networking News: Executive Strategies for Technology Management
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- January 1, 2008
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High energy costs, concerns about power availability and pressure from company stakeholders are causing growing numbers of IT managers to consider green strategies for their data centers.
Although U.S. energy use is increasing in absolute terms, it is growing more slowly than the economy. Thats mostly because much of the economys growth is in service industries, and service industries consume less energy than manufacturing industries.
Even though IT has been key in building the service economy, energy consumption in IT centers is beginning to draw greater scrutiny. In a report to Congress in August 2007, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ...