Data centres could save millions through energy-efficiency
A Finnish ICT collaboration project concludes that energy efficiency in data centres can be improved by as much as fifty per cent. For individual data centres this would mean annual savings of thousands of megawatt hours and hundreds of thousands of euros.Electricity used by Finnish data centres represents roughly 0.5–1.5 per cent of the total national electricity consumption. The amount has nearly doubled during the past five years. According to Motiva, a company specializing in energy and material efficiency, the annual electricity consumption in Finnish data centres can be reduced by as
