The Energy Managers Association (EMA) has called on the government to take action on the energy and carbon related costs resulting from legislation that requires companies to store vast quantities of data on remote servers. Among the measures suggested by the EMA are proposals that the government should carry out mandatory carbon and energy impact assessments upon each piece of legislation put through... 

Energy saving in the education sector has been brought to the forefront as it was revealed that a UK school is on course to shave over 12% off its annual energy bill after installing a power management system across its entire IT suite. Richard Brent, bursar at St Faith’s independent school in Cambridge, told Energy Demand the school had seen £3,500 in savings on its energy bill since it installed... 

The virtualised and hosted model of service-based IT otherwise more popularly known as cloud computing has started to evidence efficiencies at deeper infrastructural levels in energy-specific installations. Subscribing to enterprise-level virtualisation services from current ‘darlings of the cloud space’ Box… is Schneider Electric, a global specialist in energy management with operations in more... 

The following opinion is presented by David Palmer-Stevens, SI Manager for EMEA at Panduit, a manufacturer of physical infrastructure solutions that support power, communications, computing, control and security systems.  At the end of last year, The Green Grid announced that the Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) metric, which measures how efficiently a data centre uses its power, was set to become... 

David Snelling, The Green Grid This is a guest post for Energy Demand from David Snelling, EMEA Technical Work Group Vice-Chair, The Green Grid One of the most powerful weapons in the arsenal of IT efficiency is the Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) metric, developed by The Green Grid. Like many of the best ideas, it is devastatingly simple: a figure representing the ratio between the amount of electricity...