IT directors have been advised to increase efforts to reduce energy consumption as new evidence emerged highlighting the financial cost to IT departments of power-hungry hardware and soaring electricity prices.
According to a new report due out later this month from datacentre consultancy BroadGroup, UK datacentre providers now spend an average of £5.3m per datacentre on energy, making the UK the most expensive datacentre location in Europe. The report also warned that if electricity prices continue to rise at the current rate then energy costs for an average datacentre will reach £11m by 2010.
"You can now put 10,000 servers in a datacentre without too many people needed to manage them," explained Prentice. "So whereas you used to make datacentre decisions based on management costs and skills availability, now sensible firms are making those decisions based on energy. Google and Microsoft make no secret of the fact that their next generation datacentres in the US are being located in the Pacific North West because it puts them close to low-cost and reliable hydro-electric power."
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IT directors have been advised to increase efforts to reduce energy consumption as new evidence emerged highlighting the financial cost to IT departments of power-hungry hardware and soaring electricity prices.
