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DRT was the first company in the data center industry to achieve LEED Gold certification in recognition of a Chicago data center completed in 2007.
Fifty-one percent of companies have a green data center strategy, according to a recent Digital Realty Trust survey of senior decision makers at leading North American corporations who are directly responsible for data center strategy. That’s a decline since the 2007 study when 55 percent of companies answered the question affirmatively. The result indicates that corporate adoption of green data center strategies has stalled or taken a step back since last year.
A McKinsey & Company report called for an immediate overhaul of corporate management practices and a doubling of the energy efficiency of large-scale corporate computing facilities by 2012.
Research from the Economist Intelligence Unit found that 57 percent of international companies have a strategy to reduce the carbon produced by their business activities, but less than half mentioned information and communications technology as part of their plans to cut CO2 emissions.
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