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Accenture calculator: How green is your data centre?
Power-hungry-tech tamer unveiled

By Nick Heath

Published: Wednesday 30 January 2008

Data centres are computational workhorses which can greedily gobble up to 100 times more power per square foot than your average office.

Green IT from A to Z

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A is for Abroad
B is for Blades
C is for Carbon footprint
D is for Data centres
E is for Energy sources
F is for Freecycle
G is for Government
H is for Homeworking
I is for Ice caps
J is for Jobs (Steve)
K is for Kilowatts
L is for Landfill
M is for Mercury
N is for Nanogeneration
O is for Offsetting
P is for Paperless office
Q is for Queen
R is for Recycling
S is for SmartPlanet.com
T is for Travel
U is for Upgrade
V is for Virtualisation
W is for WEEE
X is for Xmas
Y is for You
Z is for Zero emissions

On Friday Accenture will launch the beta of its Green Data Centre Calculator, aimed at helping companies tame energy hungry centres, bringing huge cost savings and environmental benefits.

The service will produce a tailored plan of the best way to improve environmental efficiency in data centres, together with cost reduction predictions, based on case studies of previous company savings.

With a typical data centre consuming a watt in cooling for each watt used in computation, Accenture estimates companies could recoup the money from green calculator initiatives within a year.

Companies enter information including the number and size of their data centres, the energy provider, the cooling and cleaning set-up, centre utilisation and the server storage network.

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