Like many clients these days, Bryant University's kept an eye on energy savings when they built their new data center. They worked the West Kingston-based APC-MGE whose InfraStruXure product provides cooling and energy management.

PBN: Why are companies more concerned with energy consumption now than they were in the past?
PIM: ...two things have happened recently. One, there are more high-density boxes going into the data center...Data centers weren’t designed for that stuff in the first place. Second, you have the rising cost of energy. As you put in high-density stuff, it draws more power, so all of a sudden there’s a blip in your utility bill...