“Data centers are notoriously energy intensive, but business can take many different measures to reduce such energy usage, including using a containment system, virtualizing servers and storage and simply turning off idle equipment.
According to research from the Global e-Sustainability Initiative (GeSI), data centers already consume more than 3% of the world’s total electricity and generate 2% of our planet’s CO2 emissions.”
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