10 Factors That Define an Energy-Efficient Data Center (
Page 1 of 11 ) According to recent Gartner Group and Environmental Protection Agency reports,
the power demands of data centers in the United States have grown by five or
more times in the last seven years and are expected to double again by 2011. At
the moment, the EPA estimates that data centers account for 1.5 percent of all
the power used in the United States—roughly equal to all television use in the
nation and more than the entire state of Mississippi uses on a daily
basis.
It's also a fact that companies spend much more on power to run a
server during its lifetime than they do in capital expense to purchase
it. So it behooves enterprises large and small to be aware of these power
and cooling needs when building or refurbishing a data center.
Here are 10 characteristics of green data centers.
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