 | Level: Introductory Scott Laningham (scottla@us.ibm.com), Podcast Editor, IBM developerWorks
26 Feb 2008 Listen to environmental experts discuss data center power
use.
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In this 14-minute podcast, Dan Esty, one of the world's leading experts on
corporate environmental strategy, and Dennis Quan, CTO of IBM High
Performance On Demand Solutions, look at the explosion of power use by
today's rapidly growing data centers. A recent EPA report estimated data
centers use 1.5 percent of the total electricity generated in the United
States — a figure that has doubled in the past five years and will double
again by 2011 at an operating cost of $7.4 billion annually. The problem and
solutions, including a smarter approach to IT, are discussed.
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About the guests  Dan Esty is one of the world's leading experts on corporate environmental
strategy. Formerly a senior official at the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency, he has advised CEOs and top executives from Honeywell, Northeast
Utilities, Kerr-McGee, Limited Brands, Shell Oil, and more than a dozen
other companies in the United States, Europe, and Asia. He has helped
establish and continues to serve on Environmental Advisory Boards at
Coca-Cola and Unilever. He is Hillhouse professor of environmental law and
policy at Yale University with faculty appointments in both Yale's
Environment and Law schools. He is director of the Center for Business and
Environment at Yale and the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy.
The author or editor of nine books and dozens of articles on environmental
strategy, policy, governance, and regulation, he comments frequently on
environmental issues on television and radio, as well as in such
publications as The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, The New York
Times, The Economist, Forbes, and Fortune. He holds a bachelor's degree
from Harvard University, a master's degree from Oxford University, where he
was a Rhodes Scholar, and a law degree from Yale University.  Dennis Quan is the CTO for the IBM High Performance On Demand Solutions
(HiPODS) division. He is also the technical lead for the IBM-Google
Internet Scale (Cloud) Computing university collaboration partnership
announced in October 2007, with Clouds in operation at Google's academic
data center, the University of Washington, and IBM's Almaden Research
Center. Prior to joining HiPODS, he was a research staff member and manager
in the Next Generation Web department of the IBM T. J. Watson Research
Center, where he worked on semantic web, bioinformatics, and XML
technologies. He received his doctorate in computer science from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology and holds degrees in chemistry and mathematics from MIT.
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Podcast credits | 
| | Scott Laningham, host of developerWorks podcasts, was previously editor of developerWorks newsletters. Prior to IBM, he was an award-winning reporter and director for news programming featured on Public Radio International, a freelance writer for the American Communications Foundation and CBS Radio, and a songwriter/musician. |
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