I was really excited to drive into work this morning in a Toyota Prius. It's a rental car. When I drove it off the lot, the average fuel efficiency was calculated in the display at 44.6 mpg. That's not bad, but I thought it could be better, so I turned it into a game by adjusting my driving habits in an attempt to raise the average mpg. As I drove into to work this morning, I got the average up to 48.7 mpg's!
Not too shabby, but while I was playing games with the Prius, my employer, Care2 accomplished a much more impressive feat. The engineers worked all weekend to relocate our servers and today, we celebrate the completion of our move to a green data center for www.care2.com.
In moving our facility, we not only improved the performance of the site, but we stand to save 341,000 kilowatt-hours of energy use. We'll also effectively abate 266 metric tons of CO2 due to these upgrades.
If you're interesting in learning more and potentially making your own data centers green, read more here:
- Our CEO, Randy Paynter wrote about it in his blog
- Our Senior Director of IT, Ed Traylor, wrote about it here.
As for me, I'm still working on the Prius. My goal is to get it beyond 50 mpg's by the weekend.
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