Outsource your IT to save energy

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Economic staples like specialization of labor and free-markets shine through in all different places, and energy efficiency is no different.  BusinessGreen blog reports that according to a European study businesses can achieve significant energy savings by outsourcing their data centers to large centralized computing facilities.

Centralized facilities have a much greater incentive to invest in energy saving measures because of their economies of scale.  The more computers they run, the more they stand to gain from using less energy.  Many business on their own do not use enough energy to justify the investment in energy saving infrastructure.


Posted on Tuesday, October 9th, 2007 at 4:48 pm | Tagged in Energy Efficiency | posted by Marc

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