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DATA CENTER - A LOSING ECONOMIC PROPOSITION

Tags : DATA CENTER ECONOMIC PROPOSITION POWER CONSUMPTION
Industry : IT Services, ITES / BPO / Customer Service
Functional Area : Capital Management, Business Processes, Innovation
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There is one serious and important issue which have to be addressed.

Energy consumption and cooling requirements by today's data centers.

The data center industry is the fourth largest producer of carbon dioxide emissions, accounting for 3 percent of global pollution, according to the US Department of Energy (DEP). The DEP predicts that if the industry continues at its current pace, 14 new coal plants will need to be built by the year 2012 in order to support that growth.

"We really believe that as the data demands grow and computing power increases, data center infrastructure will have to become more energy efficient otherwise rising energy costs will make even the smallest data center a losing economic proposition."

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shrini vasan  |  Argues in support of  "Yes"  |  1 year ago
One of the main reason is, many DC has running with old server farm with legacy tech. It needs to be migrated to latest green computing environment and secondly to look for SaaS working model though there is some security threats and vulnerability...
ASOKE KUSARI  |  Argues in support of  "No"  |  2 years ago
Why "losing" - this may be a viable proposition.
sumitra dutta  |  Argues in support of  "Yes"  |  2 years ago
Mobile data centres have been around in one form or another for years. But the market has been hampered by the global recession, which is forcing businesses to cut back or delay data centre projects, which could include using mobile data centres....
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