BY Greg Goode ON
Thursday, 2 December 2010
 Should the US data centre industry be afraid?
Could data processed in a data centre somewhere in the US be considered a dirty export?
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BY Greg Goode ON
Thursday, 11 November 2010
If ever a word has lost its significance, it's the word 'green' when it's used to imply environmental sustainability and energy efficiency ... especially when it's applied to the data centre industry.
So, let's disregard 'green' and instead talk 'energy efficiency'. And, more specifically, let's talk about the cost of ignoring it.
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BY Greg Goode ON
Thursday, 23 September 2010
Years ago, data centre users and data centre consultants would have considered an 'energy-efficient data centre' to be an oxymoron. Ditto 'ecologically-sustainable data centre'. Data centres were considered energy soaks, and their construction was more like a cold war bunker.
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BY Greg Goode ON
Thursday, 17 December 2009
Kyoto, Copenhagen, climate change, global warming, greenhouse gases, emissions trading scheme, carbon tax, carbon capture and sequestration, carbon offset, sustainability, renewable energy sources, data centres. Data centres?! Hang on. Back up. How do data centres fit in that list?
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BY Greg Goode ON
Thursday, 12 November 2009
Every year, the clothing industry attempts to re-invent itself as fashionistas boldly declare that some colour is the new black. In the case of the data centre industry, green is the new black. But this isn’t a fad or even re-invention, it’s r-evolution.
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BY Greg Goode ON
Thursday, 13 August 2009
Real-estate agents constantly chant the mantra ‘location, location, location’. Well, the data centre industry’s mantra is fast becoming ‘energy, energy, energy’.
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