Keeping your data center above 70 degrees Fahrenheit?!

While many an IT staffer would chalk you off as a loon, KC Mares, director of Yahoo data center strategy, thinks that threshold is an antiquated notion. PC World's Jon Brodkin writes:

Data centers don't need to be kept at 70 degrees Fahrenheit anyway, as many are, he says. They can survive just fine at 85 degrees, he says. Yahoo doesn't use air conditioning to cool data centers for two-thirds of each year.

Green to Gold author Andrew Winston -- who's been making the rounds of late -- chimes in with a couple of tips including this gem: adding the power bill to the CIO's budget. That's so loony, it just might work!