BBC NEWS | Technology | Mixed results for green IT goals.

Nice new BBC news article, about how the majority of govt~ IT managers don’t know that they’re supposed to be reducing their carbon footprint.

One of the hints is that the “proliferation” of “air conditioning of server rooms” (among other things) is the cause.

I’d like to see you run a datacentre (tonns of computer servers, really big pipe to the internet etc) without airconditioning. If we turn ours off for 10 minutes, the temperature gets swealtering. 30 minutes and old harddrives start failing. Dumb.