Dive Summary:

• Corporate data centers are a rapidly growing necessity, and more and more of those companies are looking to reduce energy consumption and their environmental footprints.
• Knowing how to help companies design and being able to construct low-impact centers is a significant skill to offer.
• Among the factors in masking data centers green are designing for less consumption of electricity, less water consumption for cooling and use of recycled materials in construction.

From the article:

Investment in data centers built to green standards will increase from the $17.1 billion predicted for this year to $45 billion by 2016, according to Pike Research. ...