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

[Bernard Robertson-Dunn]

On 27/09/2012 9:56 AM, Marghanita da Cruz wrote:
> Tom Worthington wrote:
> <snip>

>> 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.

That's where a lot of the costs of government computer rooms and closets 
were hidden, until the whole-of-government datacentre strategy 
identified that this was a Bad Thing (tm) and is starting to force 
agencies to both acquire the information and report on it.

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brd

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