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Do not ignore the data centre energy crisis, warns expert

Posted by admin on Sun, 01/02/2009 - 08:40

Debate over the impending capacity and energy crisis is intensifying in the data centre industry. As data centres fill with increasingly demanding hardware and cooling systems, the energy crisis looms large and will impact upon many locations in the UK and across Europe.

Despite a recent survey from HP [http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/2008/081218a.html?jumpid=reg_R1002_USEN] claiming that 60 per cent of CIOs will initiate a green IT project in 2009*, the issue still is not top of the corporate agenda.

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