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Article | 16/07/2010 Standard proposed for measuring data center efficiency
A group of organizations led by The Green Grid has recommended a standard way for data centers to measure their Power Usage Effectiveness, aiming to b...
Article | 5/02/2010 Green Grid to release new data center efficiency tools
The Green Grid Consortium will release two free tools in the coming months to help companies measure and improve the energy efficiency of their data c...
Article | 15/05/2009 Data centre managers concerned about EU green rules
Nearly three-quarters of European data centre managers are concerned about the impact that environmental regulation could have on data centres - altho...
Article | 1/05/2009 Intel releases power management tool for data centers
Intel on Thursday announced Data Center Manager software tool kit that can reduce the power drawn by servers in data centers by tapping into hardware ...
Article | 4/12/2008 Scotland hotbed for green data centres
Scotland is to host two pioneering data centres, with plans being announced to build an eco-friendly cloud centre in Inverness, and the world's larges...

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Article | 10/09/2008 Tech's looming battle against rising energy costs
IT has gotten a bad rap when it comes to energy consumption. Walk into any datacenter, and you can almost feel the carbon emissions leaking into the a...

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How to Manage the Data Center Power Problem

It wasn’t that long ago that IT organizations hardly gave power a thought. But these days power is a problem. Most data centers consume too much of it — at least 10 times more per square foot than the average office building, and sometimes far more than that. What that means is companies spend roughly double the cost of running IT equipment on cooling and infrastructure. IT equipment is the single largest consumer of data center energy, so reducing the amount of equipment in your data center will certainly reduce energy costs. To keep up, companies must be able to manage and measure power consumption just as they do most every other aspect of IT. Read on.