Randy Mears, on EDS’ Next Big Thing Blog has an intriguing post about data center power consumption. The New Compute Infrastructure's Power Woes wonders about the latest Gartner prediction: by the end of 2008, “50 percent of current data centers will have insufficient power and cooling capacity to meet the demands of high-density equipment.â€
Although Gartner may have just slapped a sexy sound byte on an otherwise run-of-the-mill IT conundrum, the feds are showing interest lately in the computer power problem.
Last week, the San Jose Mercury News reported (Tech firms worried about energy shortages)
on a meeting between the Energy Department and officials from Microsoft, IBM, Cisco Systems, Sun Microsystems, Hewlett-Packard and others to brainstorm about policy and technologies to tackle this server-level energy problem that has economic and national security implications.
And CNet reports that President Bush will soon sign a bill encouraging more energy-efficient servers. (Bush poised to sign clean-tech bill):
The law would also instruct the Environmental Protection Agency to conduct a study analyzing the state of the art of data centers and servers in the U.S., including potential cost savings from the use of energy-efficient products. The EPA is then supposed to recommend new ways to attract interest in energy-efficient products, which has been the goal for years of the government's Energy Star initiative.
And although I think that green IT needs all the attention it can get, don’t you think this is something the market can better regulate?
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