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From Lauraibm

Full story: How Green is IT's Future? (8-Aug-07)

Power, cooling and energy efficiency have become key issues in the IT industry as data centres become more densely populated, and there is a shift towards digital information management.

A report submitted by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Energy Star Program highlighted the energy challenges facing the IT industry and possible steps to alleviate some of the problems. The report stated that this won’t be easy to achieve as the technology sector is seeing power consumption rise rapidly, with a possibility of consumption in the industry doubling by 2011. Ways to mitigate the issue were outlined, for example the use of standardised metrics for data centres, Energy Star performance rating systems and financial incentives; the reaction to such ideas was positive.

There is a belief that the future may bring data centres that no longer need cooling equipment, some companies such as IBM, HP and Sun are already doing researching and testing into this area.