A chart from Environmental Leader, forecasting market growth for the green data center market.
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — A report issued this week by the environmental and energy news service Environmental Leader, the company expects the US green data center market to grow from $3.82 billion in 2010 to $13.81 billion in 2015, representing a compound annual growth rate of 29 percent during that period.
A summary of the report does not explicitly define the “green data center market,” but it seems to be referring to spending on data center services by enterprise and government, either outsourced or in-house. The summary does not specifically define “green” in the context of data centers, either.
According to the report, information technology accounts for 2 percent of the world’s carbon emissions, and data centers operate at 4 percent average utilization. It says that, worldwide, there are 4.75 million operating servers that are not actively used, running at a cost of $20.7 billion, including $3.7 billion in energy.
The US government may be leading the initiative to adopt green data center services, according to the report, which says “US Government expenditures on green data centers will reach $0.86 billion in 2010 and increase to $2.05 billion in 2015, accounting for 14.9 percent of the green data center market in the US.”
The report also predicts an increase in regulation around monitoring energy efficiency in data centers , which “will put pressure on green data center vendors to develop products tailored to the public sector and encourage established government contractors to increase their service offerings to include green data center advisory services.”
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