By: Cars and trucks have long been the most visible symbol of America's insatiable thirst for energy. But data centers - those sprawling computing centers that cram thousands of energy-hungry servers into air-conditioned rooms - though less visible, are starting to take their toll as well. As most CIOs know, data centers are wildly expensive and require gobs of electricity to maintain. And more than a few vendors are starting to feel the CIOs' pain, marketing their servers and processors as energy efficient and eco-friendly.
So we sat down with Dave Douglas, the vice president of eco-responsibility at Sun Microsystems, to craft some ways to cut energy costs from the data center and do the earth a favor in the meantime. Here are the 10 steps to a greener data center:
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