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Data Centers Big Polluters, says Study
May 6, 2008 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Data centers produce higher gas emissions than the countries of Argentina and the Netherlands and are projected to surpass the airline industry as carbon emitters by 2020, according to a new study by McKinsey & Company (mckinsey.com).
The study uses data from the Uptime Institute, a research and advisory organization for data center users, was released at the Green Enterprise Computing Symposium in Orlando, Florida and predominantly focuses on the cost and energy saving opportunities being “squandered” today in corporate and government data centers.
According to reports in the New York Times, William Forrest, the lead McKinsey consultant on the report, says that the carbon dioxide emissions attributable to the electricity consumed by fast-expanding data centers will rise fourfold by 2020 and that the greenhouse gas impact of data centers is “not yet counted and likely to be very significant.”
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