A typical data center uses about as much energy for cooling as it does to power the servers. Some data centers however use significantly less. Google generally uses only about 20% of the cooling energy that a typical data center does.  

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The International Code Council (ICC) was established in 1994 as a non-profit organization dedicated to developing a single set of broad and coordinated national construction codes. The three founders of the ICC are Building Officials and Code Administrators International, Inc. (BOCA), International Conference of Building Officials (ICBO), and Southern Building Code Congress International, Inc. (SBCCI). Because construction codes varied too much from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, there was a need to make all jurisdictional codes similar for the safety of the public. So, the nation’s three code groups created the International Code Council and the International Codes or I-Codes without regional limitations. 

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