Good incentives boost datacenter energy efficiency
InfoWorld | at | by Mike
A Microsoft executive shared techniques the company has used, including new kinds of employee incentive programs and internally created automation tools, to reduce the energy consumption of its growing datacenters.
The methods he described could help other companies that use or operate datacenters reduce costs, said experts who also spoke at the datacenter efficiency strategy conference put on by the U.S. Department of Energy and the Environmental Protection Agency in Redmond, Washington, on Tuesday.