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The Greening of Data Centers

By Amy Quinton on Tuesday, April 22, 2008.

You may think telecommuting, online business meetings, or emails may be the more environmentally friendly way to save energy.
But the large data centers and server farms that provide that technology are not green at all.
Data centers are the S-U-V’s of the tech world – guzzling one and a half percent of the nation’s energy supply.
As New Hampshire Public Radio’s Amy Quinton reports, efforts are underway to make data centers more green, but it might not be easy.