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| Written by By Rakesh Dogra | |
| Tuesday, 21 April 2009 | |
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Life is precious than anything else; be it business, commerce or industry and the Environmental Protection Agency oversees the task of protecting the environment, setting forth guidelines and regulations to the same effect. It is also a well known fact that data centers are one of the biggest consumers of energy and also produce large quantities of heat which have to be absorbed by the atmosphere. This is leading to rising concerns amongst scientists and researchers and efforts are going on to minimize the impact of rising green house effects.
It has been found that data center industry consumes nearly 1.5% of the overall power production in the United States and this is expected to get doubled in just a short period of five years. Now this is certainly a cause for concern, for data centers lead to increased productivity and efficiency in business processes, yet this could spell a looming disaster for the environment in the long run. Therefore the EPA decided to carry out some data gathering exercises and had been working on data collection for the past one year. One Hundred of data centers participated in this data collection and the overall work has been going on for more than two years. This is all a part of the efforts of EPA to lay down energy performance ratings structure for data centers which it hopes to announce by the next year, though some of its details were divulged in a blog by the EPA Energy Star commercial buildings manager Michale Zatz. The metric which has been put forth by EPA is the energy star rating of data centers which will be on a scale ranging from 1 to 100. The rating would help data centers to know where they stand compared to their peers as far as efficient energy utilization is concerned. The rating will be given to a particular facility after its data has been analyzed for a period of one year. For example a rating of 50 on the 1-100 scale would imply that the data center is just doing average regarding efficient energy consumption and needs to improvise further. Similar if a data center scores say around 75 points, it would come in the top bracket and quality for an energy star label. The energy star ratings have been around for quite some time, but their application to the arena of data centers is certainly new and innovative. It is certainly a welcome step since the data centers being huge dissipaters of heat and energy, required a rating mechanism in order to make the industry aware of where it stands and where it should be heading in the future. Progress is certainly welcome but the environmental aspect cannot be ignored at any cost, especially in the current times when environment concerns are high everywhere and people are talking about global warming, carbon footprints, melting glaciers, and ozone depletion.
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