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voltage levels, 3-4 EPA (Environmental Protection Agency),
watts, volts, amps relationship, 3 55. See also government regulation
worldwide usage statistics, 226-228 collaboration with The Green Grid, 48-49
Electronic Product Environmental data center energy efficiency
Assessment Tool (EPEAT), 79-81, 109 recommendations, 62-66
Electronic Waste Recycling Act, 80 energy efficiency incentives, 60-62
embedded cooling systems, 144 ENERGY STAR program, 45, 58-59, 79,
emissions trading. See cap-and-trade 114-115, 180
system Web site, 36
EMS (energy management systems), 42. See EPEAT (Electronic Product Environmental
also AEM (Active Energy Manager) Assessment Tool), 79-81, 109
enabling power management features, 28 ESG (Enterprise Strategy Group), 105
energy, defined, 3 Esty, Daniel C., xxvi
energy consumption European Code of Conduct Web site, 36
of data centers, 4, 18-19, 59-60 European Union Emission Trading
of desktop and laptop computers, 27-30 Scheme, 56
metrics. See metrics evaluation. See assessment
reducing indirectly, 9 experimental solar power systems,
statistics for data center cooling systems, 277-278
129-130
energy efficiency F
defined, 60 Fanara, Andrew, 80
incentives Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FCMG)
from electric utilities, 69-78 industry, 238 ptg
from EPA, 60-62 federal government, data center energy
from IT vendors, 81-84
efficiency actions, 64-65
ratings for green IT, 78-81 financial incentives to promote energy
recommendations for data centers, 62-66 efficiency, 61
strategies for data center cooling systems, floor space. See physical space
135-136
requirements
air flow optimization, 137-138 fluid-side economizer systems, 139
CRAC unit efficiency, 140-141 four-step compressor unloading, 140
economizer systems, 139-140 France case study, 187-194
supplemental cooling, 142-143 energy-use dashboards, 191-192
vapor sealing, 136-137
Energy Efficiency Certificate (EEC) live camera, 190
solution-level monitoring, 192-194
program, 51-52
thermal camera, 191
energy management systems (EMS), 42. See free-market environmentalism,
also AEM (Active Energy Manager)
cap-and-trade system as, 57
energy potential rankings of wind power, freight forwarding, 19
269-271
ENERGY STAR program, 45, 58-59, 79, Friedman, Thomas L., xxiv, 215, 281
Fritts, Charles, 273
114-115, 180
energy storage, 132-134 fuel cells, 143
Fuller, Calvin, 274
energy-use dashboards, Montpelier, France future
case study, 191-192
energy utilities. See utility companies of green IT, 205-206, 209
challenges facing, 210-212
Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), 105 goals for, 212-213
environmental impact strategy for, 213-214
of hydroelectric power, 258-259 of metrics/rating systems, 127
of utility company data centers, 148