Oracle looks to Utah for green data center
Oracle will consolidate computing facilities from its many acquisitions in a remotely managed data center near Salt Lake City, partly to cut its second-largest data center cost: energy.
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Sooner rather than later,
Sooner rather than later, this kind of energy efficiency planning/evaluation will even filter down into the market values for commercial real estate used for data centers. There's BIG savings at stake.Oracle isn't the first major ISV to look at this issue. And it certainly won't be the last.