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All this data is making me hot
We should have seen it coming. Having lived through the Information Age and built our businesses during the Knowledge Economy, we should have known that all that data being processed and stored was going to cause trouble down the line. And it seems that time is now.

- First and foremost, it's a massive energy drain. From a Techworld.com report on the Power and Cooling Survey 2006 (produced by BroadGroup): "An average UK data-centre uses more power in a year than the city of Leicester."

- As a consequence, according to Rakesh Kumar (a Gartner analyst speaking at the Data Centre Technology Summit in London), data centres are set to become like overcrowded greenhouses - and it's becoming harder to cool them down. Again, from Techworld.com: "It takes between 1.2 to 1.3 times the amount of energy a server consumes to cool it, Kumar said. IT managers frequently can't fill an entire rack because of the heat generated by the servers."

- All of this is part of the push for more Green IT, which we've already covered here, but it's worth adding that there is at least one other compelling business argument for doing something for the environment: If there’s no planet left, that can put a serious dent in your sales figures.

- And apparently, none of our data is safe, no matter whose laptop we keep it on.

Perhaps, when it comes down to it, there’s just too much information?



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