DATA CENTER EFFICIENCIES CAN SAVE U.S. $3.8BIL/YR

America's Data Centers Consuming and Wasting Growing Amounts of Energy; Critical Action Needed to Save Money and Cut Pollution

Pierre DelForge, August 26, 2014 (Natural Resources Defense Council)

“…In 2013, U.S. data centers [--the backbone of the modern economy--] consumed an estimated 91 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity…and are on-track to reach 140 billion kilowatt-hours by 2020…Some large server farms operated by well-known Internet brands provide shining example of ultra-efficient data centers. Yet small, medium, and corporate data centers are responsible for the vast majority of data center energy consumption and are generally much less efficient…The largest issues and opportunities for energy savings include the under-utilization of data center equipment and the misalignment of incentives, including in the fast growing multi-tenant data center market segment…To move forward, systemic measures such as the public disclosure of [simple] efficiency metrics are necessary to create the conditions for best-practice efficiency behaviors…[and cut electricity consumption in U.S. data centers] by as much as 40 percent…[saving] U.S. businesses $3.8 billion a year.” click here for more

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