[LINK] Data Centers Waste Vast Amounts of Energy, Belying Industry Image - NYTimes.com

[Marghanita da Cruz]

Tom Worthington wrote:
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> On 26/09/12 11:10, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:
> 
>> Third part data centre operators have a conflict of interest ...
> 
> No, one of the measures used to rate data centres is power efficiency.
> If the data centre owner crams in too much equipment, the power
> efficiency drops.
> 
> The way this efficiency is rated at present is crude but such measures
> exist, such as Data centre infrastructure efficiency (DCiE):
> 
> DCiE = (Main IT equipment energy consumption)/(Total facility energy
> consumption) * 100
> 
> Of course if the customer doest care about efficiency, then the data
> centre owner is not going to care either. But government agencies and
> large companies ask about efficiency.
> 
> More at: http://www.tomw.net.au/ict_sustainability/centres.shtml
> 

If the IT management doesn't care, I think we might see budget's for data 
centres move to building management.

Marghanita
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