By inmedia
For one reason or another, we just received the October 15 issue of eWeek. Regardless of its tardiness, the green issue is full of interesting news about what technology companies are doing to improve energy efficiency.
“An inconvenient IT truth” by Michael Vizard is shocking. Here are some quick facts I pulled from the piece:
-Surveys show that 48 percent of IT budgets are spent on energy
-By 2008, 5o percent of today’s data centers will have insufficient power and cooling
-By 2009, energy costs will become the second-highest operating cost of a data center, behind labor
-By 2010, half of all data centers will have to relocate or outsource applications to another facility
Vizard’s conclusion is simple: “Unless IT organizations take a proactive approach to green computing, they will not have the necessary dollars needed to invest in the system.”
