Liquid real estate Issue 05
Cutting data centre carbon emissions
Financing the cities of the future Masdar: Abu Dhabi aims for first zero-carbon city Amman: An ancient city looks to the future Dongtan: China firms up eco-city proposal New Songdo: Korea rethinks urban development
Data centres – where all the serious number crunching for banks takes place – are huge consumers of energy. Recognizing this, many banks have taken steps to outsource data processing to energy-efficient third parties. Citi, which aims to reduce its carbon footprint by 10% by 2011, has kicked off a programme whereby new data centres, office buildings and operations centres will be built to Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (Leed) certification standards. Plans for the...
