increasing demand for data processing and storage, corporations have
no choice but to start identifying areas to amplify energy
efficiencies immediately. However, according to a Siemens survey
released today, many companies are uncertain about how to best
accomplish new efficiency expectations. The new study, which examined
general IT efficiency attitudes and practices, revealed nearly three
quarters of the Fortune 2000 respondents (87%) believe it is important
to pursue overall energy efficient practices, but only 48% have a
stated goal to reduce their carbon footprint, and even less have begun
to take action.
"As businesses continue to search for ways to save money and alleviate
the strain on the power grid, green technology across the board is
becoming a necessity rather than just 'the right thing to do' --
examining and implementing data center efficiencies is one major area
we cannot overlook," stated Ken Cornelius, CEO of Siemens One, a
business unit of German engineering giant, Siemens AG. "If we do not
start looking closely at our data centers now, 70% of the world's data
centers will have tangible system disruptions by 2011 and the systems
will experience world-wide brown outs over the course of the next five
years."
Data centers alone account for 2.5% of the world's energy use, which
is expected to grow by an astonishing 12% a year, placing even more
unnecessary strain on the power grid. The EPA notes that the energy
used by datacenters in the U.S. is more than the electricity consumed
by all of the nation's color TV sets and comparable to the electricity
consumption of approximately 5.8 million homes. According to the
survey, a majority (65%) of leading Fortune 2000 companies recently
reported that the costs of running their data centers have increased
over the last few years, which certainly is no surprise given the
growing number of data centers across the U.S.
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