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http://www.itpro.co.uk/storage/news/180210/data-centre-managers-in-the-dark-over-power-consumption.html

Over half (55 per cent) of data centre managers are not aware of their monthly power bill costs, according to a new survey released today.

And more than a third (35 per cent) of companies that have a carbon footprint reduction policy do not pass it onto IT as a formal objective, according the research published by Global DataCenter Management (GDCM) and carried out by analyst firm, Quocirca.

Quocirca analyst Dennis Szubert said: “There’s been much hype around corporate commitment to the reduction of CO2 emissions over the last few years, but our research suggests many are still only paying lip service to environmental issues.”

The research said that, as one of the most power hungry areas of a business, organisations should be able to accurately manage their power data centre consumption before they can claim to be truly green.

Check out this interesting article on the itpro site. It’s talking about how over 55% of data center managers not knowing their monthly power costs. But is this not because the power bill for an enterprise is typically paid for by the facilities team? That we can tell the annual power bill for the building, we can then guess the amount of power being used and estimate the cost, but on a monthly basis reporting the energy costs of the data center isn’t necessarily that easy. Related to this point, could this lead to more of the facilities team that handle the power and cooling in the data center coming under the ‘IT’ business line? As data center space and power continues to be an issue, as we have to be more open regarding which systems are using what levels of power, are we going to get down to the watt per hour, against revenue or business benefit delivered? Could we charge the business the true cost of hosting those DEC boxes? Related to that though, would they be prepared to pay that cost – let’s not forget the operational costs could be say £500,000 a year for one application’s infrastructure, but if the cost of re-development is £3 million over a year, the business might prefer to continue as is, along a more fixed kind of cost structure?

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