Providing a green data centre is also expected to save Academica about £140,000 a year.
On 31 March, the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore and other government agencies hosted a green data centre forum.
It is Facebook's marquee "green" data center, using innovative cooling techniques to conserve energy.
India's greenhouse gas emissions grew by 57percentt over the past decade, while China's increased by a third, according to the World Bank's annual Little Green Data Book.
In addition to the green data centre standards initiative, Singapore's government is pushing for increased energy efficiency measures from both manufacturing facilities and business offices throughout the country.
To exploit the opportunity, I.B.M., which built its business on mainframes and still sells them, last fall introduced a green data center services unit.
The SEC still gives firms wide discretion on how to interpret its requirement to report green data.
Ceres, another network of green investors, looked at the green data in SEC filings and concluded that they are poor.
Rich countries consume a disproportionate amount of energy and natural resources, says a new World Bank publication, the Little Green Data Book 2003.
But that burden is not onerous: most green data are cheap to collect, since emissions (for example) are tied to energy usage, which companies track anyway.
What to do, after all, when a company exploits a minor but true green data point to the exclusion of its larger environmental record, or peddles meaningless green images and aphorisms?
