ABSTRACT
Key Points ◾ Describes the various assets (buildings, data centers, and devices) of an organization from
their carbon generation perspective. ◾ Investigates the importance of carbon-efficient buildings and in particular the green data
centers. ◾ Creates a relationship between the “bit, watt, and cost” that further relates data, data servers,
and the corresponding data centers in which they are housed. ◾ Presents various data center strategies for carbon reduction such as server virtualization,
device optimization, and hot-cold aisle arrangements. ◾ Describes networking and communications assets of an organization, usually in the data
centers, from their carbon generation perspective. ◾ Discusses mobile technologies in the way they contribute to e-waste as also the opportunities
they offer for carbon reduction. ◾ Discusses the smart metering technologies for measurements that invariably come into play
when green metrics and strategies are automated.
