Yahoo Climate and Energy Director Wants Carbon Footprint Benchmarking as Data Center Industry Norm
In an exclusive podcast for the Uptime Institute, Deborah Grove of Grove Associates and Groves Green IT interviewed Christina Page, Director of Climate and Energy Strategy at Yahoo. According to Page, to help control the rising energy consumption of the data center Industry, carbon footprint benchmarking should become an industry norm in the next 12 to 24 months. “I think it’s especially important because it looks like we’re going to have regulation around greenhouse gases in this country in the next several years,” said Ms. Page. She also pointed out four leverage points that Yahoo uses for controlling energy consumption:
making the IT infrastructure as efficient as possible in terms of hardware and applications,
confronting the heat and density challenge of enterprise computing data centers,
aligning purchases with location, climate or other circumstances that are advantageous facilities infrastructure, and
making wise choices about the resource mix from which electricity is being sourced.
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