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

[Marghanita da Cruz]

Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:
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> 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.
> 
Bernard,

I predict that the information reported will be pretty granular. ie
electricity bills.

There is little or no incentive for efficiency - energy or otherwise.

Pricing electricity will be insufficient. We also need specific standards
as has evolved for building construction.

For data centres, the scope includes lighting, ventilation/cooling,
building design as well as the heat generation and energy efficiency
of the computer systems.

My two pet topics are Lighting and sufficient memory in computer
systems, to optimise the source of Heat, requiring cooling and
energy consumption to be fit for purpose.

Marghanita
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