IT energy efficiency is a critical driver to national energy issues as well as corporate cost containment. Most people do not realize that datacenter loads in the U.S. consume over 1.5 percent of our national power supply, and loads are growing by 12 percent every year. A single rack-mount server costs around $600 per year to power and cool, and that’s if it is done efficiently!
Data Centers: Focusing on Sustainability
August 27, 2008