Remember back eight years ago to the 2007 EPA Report to Congress on Server and Data Center Energy Efficiency with 133 pages of projections about how much energy we were consuming and a challenge to see how much we could save if we would implement more energy efficient technologies and operating procedures in our facilities (http://1.usa.gov/1I1vBdJ).
Since then, we have seen the data enter industry explode with change in ways that we would never have dreamed, almost as though solutions were sitting on the shelf waiting to save the day. We as an industry of data centers have responded to the challenge brilliantly and have proven that energy efficiency also means higher performance and lower total costs of ownership.