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North American data center and facilities managers now have a “free cooling” tool to help them lower their energy consumption and related costs. The Green Grid has released free online maps and a tool designed to help data managers determine how much outside air — also known as free cooling — is available for individual data centers.

The average data center consumes the same amount of energy as 25,000 households, and may surpass the airline industry as a top greenhouse gas polluter by 2020, according to management consulting firm McKinsey & Company and the Uptime Institute.

Mark Monroe, a director of The Green Grid, said air outside data centers can be cooler than the air inside, and this new tool will help data managers leverage this free cooling. The Green Grid is a global consortium dedicated to advancing energy efficiency in data centers and business computing ecosystems.

Anything we can do to highlight the green message, and empower people to understand how they can make changes to their infrastructure to save money and improve delivery has to be a good thing, I’m off to check it out.

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