But Mr. Blaney, assistant director at the nonprofit Atlantic Canada Conservation Data Center, says a native Canadian variety deserves to be on the note instead.

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As long as energy is a precious resource, data center managers will continue looking for ways to improve conservation.

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Next he pushed executives to develop a new marketing strategy based on energy conservation, again building off the experience at APC, which came to dominate the data-center business by developing new products, including cooling systems that adjust themselves to the demands of individual server racks.

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