The US Department of Energy, which probably has the highest electric bill on the planet thanks to its many supercomputing laboratories, has ponied up $47m to help make data centers and telecommunications facilities more energy efficient. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu says the DOE is kicking in funds pulled from last year’s $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to push along efforts underway in the private sector to help make data centers more efficient and get them to market faster.
US Feds Kick in Funny Money for Green Data Centers
January 6, 2010