2 | THE DATA CENTER JOURNAL
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feature
Energy costs are a significant portion of the total cost
of ownership (TCO) for data centers. In fact, energy
can be 15–40 percent of operating cost; worldwide,
data center power and cooling infrastructure wastes
more than 60,000,000 megawatt-hours per year
1
of
electricity. To put this number into perspective, one
single megawatt can power up to 1,000 homes on
average. These facts stress the importance of data
center energy management and the responsibility of
data center owners and managers to implement and
maintain energy-efficient technologies.
By Lance Bishop and RusseLL senesac
8 Ways to Cut
Data Center
Energy Costs
1 http://blog.schneider-electric.com/datacenter/2015/04/13/three-data-center-cost-reductions-hiding-in-plain-sight/
