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Chapter 7
Green Servers and
Data Centers
Key Concepts
This chapter describes how to green your data center(s) and servers:
• Choosing green suppliers when you buy in data center services
• Why you should start now
• Planning buildings
• Planning power supplies
• Servers, storage, and networking
7.1 Choosing and Creating Green Data Centers
More and more of the intelligence and information used by a computing system
is housed away from the primary device itself. This is simply a return to a past
reality, and perhaps the future will see another swing of the pendulum.
In the mainframe computer era, computing took place on large computers—
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