Chapter 10. Green Datacentres
Staying on the previous chapter’s subject of power consumption costs, our main datacentre at Bracknell costs us approximately £265,000 per annum, and our secondary computer room facility at the Victoria head office takes that up to a combined annual power cost for both datacentres of approximately £330,000.
Who pays the bills?
IT is clearly a major user of electricity, but it is still the case that very few IT departments (including us) pay their own electricity bill directly. There is a resultant danger that IT purchasing decisions can be made as though we were ‘buying a car knowing someone else will pay for the petrol’ (comment taken from ITWeek, 12 March 2007).
Some IT departments do now choose to take the environmental ...
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