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- by Joe Polastre|Jun 17 2009
Digital Realty Trust (DRT) announced this week that one of their Santa Clara data centers has been awarded LEED-gold certification. There has been much debate over LEED certification and its role in the data center -- many LEED-platinum buildings have received an exemption from the USGBC to ignore data center energy in the LEED-platinum certification procedure.
DRT's new data center at 1500 Space Park in Santa Clara (located in a building previously occupied by Analog Devices) has also received incentives from Silicon Valley Power for verifiable steps they've taken to reduce the energy consumed by their data centers compared to industry averages. These rebates are estimated between $750,000 and $1,000,000 for the Santa Clara location. In a discussion I had with Mark Bramfitt at PG&E, he confirmed that they too are offering significant incentives for data centers that come to PG&E with verifiable kilowatt-hour savings. Incentive rates for 2009 are typically $0.05 to $0.15 per kwh saved, according to PG&E.
