DATA CENTRE PREDICTIONS
RESEARCH REVEALS UK ORGANISATIONS WITH THE MOST SERVERS ARE STILL UNLIKELY TO PRIORITISE ENERGY EFFICIENCY
Latest research from ASUS Servers has found that companies with fewer IT facilities or younger IT managers are up to twice as likely to prioritise energy efficiency , while less affluent vertical sectors seem unaware of the impact of energy efficiency on Total Cost of Ownership .
Despite the consumption by data centres of around 1 % of the world ’ s electricity production , the dramatic rise in energy prices over the last 12 months and ever-more-frequent warnings from environment agencies , UK organisations with large numbers of servers are still unlikely to prioritise energy efficiency in the data centre .
Among UK organisations with 11 or more servers :
• 35 % say energy efficiency should be a factor in their server purchasing decisions . Fewer – 34 % – say that energy efficiency is a factor in such decisions . www . intelligentdatacentres . com
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