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http://www.itworld.com/Tech/5054/070713green/

Despite datacenters heating up as their electricity demands skyrocket, Hong Kong enterprises may find it difficult to implement “green” initiatives.

In a research note published November 2006, research firm Gartner predicts that traditional datacenters waste more than 60 percent of the energy they use to just cool equipment. The research firm also forecasts that half the world’s datacenters lack the energy capacity to meet the power and cooling requirements of new high-density computing equipment by end-2008.

Thinking about how you power and cool the data center, not simply from the watt in/watt out scenario, to the likes of lights out, fewer or no KVMs (keyboard/video+mouse stations), using fresh air cooling where possible, all things that can help with your data center power issues, granted we can’t change things overnight but we can look at key areas such as disk shelf arrays and move them on to SAN to reclaim some valuable space and power. Check it out an interesting read.

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