Concerns about supply are lower in more developed data center markets, which are adapted to an environment of rising energy costs, local distribution problems, and the prospect of usage regulation.
The Green Data Center Alliance (GDCA) is inviting participants to submit to its second Call for Best Practices to enhance and expand DCEEF (Data Center Energy Efficiency Framework).
Though the inner workings of the global communications network are so complex that they remain opaque even to those who operate it, the redundancy and fail-over capabilities of the system have made it so reliable that the internet-based cloud has become a trusted place to store and transmit critical data.