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From Lauraibm

Full Article: Achieving a Deeper Shade of Green (Aug-07)

Servers are increasingly performing at a higher rate; however this coincides with them using more power. One of the main concerns with regards to data centres is that the cooling and electrical costs currently represent up to 44% of a data centres total cost of ownership, furthermore due to the high rack power levels used enterprises are spreading out their servers in order to cool them, this poses the problem of using up valuable and expensive floor space.

There is clearly a need for data centres to improve their energy efficiency; experts believe that there is no single right way to create a green data centre but it is thought that a productive first step is to conduct an energy efficiency audit; this will allow areas of high energy use to be pinpointed.

Further improvements include virtualisation and replacing older IT equipment with newer, more energy efficient models.