Buildings go green, employees see red

摘要

Forget about having your own printer or coffeepot or a mini-refrigerator in your office. Heck, you can forget about having your own office, too, because you'll probably get assigned a modular desk in a big, open space. That's what it's like to work in a green data center. IT workers are finding they have to make sacrifices for the greater good of cutting back on energy use in these facilities. Operators of the nation's greenest data centers say it takes time for employees to get used to working in environmentally friendly ways.