title: Grow a Greener Data Center
author:  Douglas Alger 
description: "Grow a Greener Data Center" A guide to building and operating energy-efficient, <br />ecologically sensitive IT and Facilities infrastructure Conventional Data Centers can have a huge impact upon the environment, using massive amounts of energy and water, emitting pollutants, and discarding huge quantities of machine waste. Their insatiable demand for energy and often inefficient designs make Data Centers expensive to operate and prime targets for future environmental regulation. Fortunately, it's now possible to design a Data Center that consumes fewer resources, costs less money to run, has a longer usable lifespan, and can even highlight a company's social responsibility. "Grow a Greener Data Center" shows how. Douglas Alger makes the business case for greening Data Centers and presents technologies, design strategies, and operational approaches to help any company improve the energy efficiency and "eco-friendliness" of their IT hosting environments. He provides multiple strategies for "greening" each phase of a new Data Center project-selecting a site, designing and building the facility, and choosing hardware-as well as tips for retrofitting an existing server environment. Alger explores IT and facilities technology areas as well as broader green building practices, including building material selection, electrical system design, use of alternative energy, cooling system design, cabling media choices, fire suppression options, water conservation practices, landscaping strategies, recycling programs, e-waste management, and more.
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  ##### Building a Modern Data Center
  
  
  
  
  
  ##### Principles & Strategies of Design
  
  
  ##### Written by
  
  
  ##### Scott D. Lowe, James Green, & David Davis
  
  
  ##### Partners, ActualTech Media
  
  
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  ### Building a Modern Data Center
  
  
  ### Principles & Strategies of Design
  
  
  Author:
  
  
  Scott D. Lowe, ActualTech Media,
  
  
  James Green, ActualTech Media,
  
  
  David Davis, ActualTech Media
  
  
  Editor:
  
  
  Hilary Kirchner, Dream Write Creative
  
  
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  Atlantis Computing
  
  
  Layout:
  
  
  Braeden Black, Avalon Media Productions
  
  
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  Geordie Carswell, ActualTech Media
  
  
  Ebook Conversion:
  
  
  Mark D'Antoni, [eBook DesignWorks](http://ebookdesignworks.com)
  
  
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