http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/01/05/will-data-centers-be-regulated-in-2009/ News and analysis about data centers, cloud computing, managed hosting and disaster recovery Wed, 17 Mar 2010 23:07:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/01/05/will-data-centers-be-regulated-in-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-2485 Jonathan Heiliger Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:11:22 +0000 http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/?p=5994#comment-2485 More important than regulating a data center -- which is fundamentally a specific building type and could easily be incorporated with tweaks to LEED -- the industry should push for component efficiency standards. This can come in the form of power supply ratings (see, http://www.climatesaverscomputing.org/), best practices (see, http://www.thegreengrid.org) and even renewable standards similar to the EU's legislation on PCB components. More important than regulating a data center — which is fundamentally a specific building type and could easily be incorporated with tweaks to LEED — the industry should push for component efficiency standards. This can come in the form of power supply ratings (see, http://www.climatesaverscomputing.org/), best practices (see, http://www.thegreengrid.org) and even renewable standards similar to the EU’s legislation on PCB components.

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