This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the First
International Workshop on Energy Efficient Data Centers (E2DC 2012) held in Madrid Spain in
May 2012. The 13 revised full papers presented were carefully selected from 32 submissions. The
papers cover topics from information and communication technologies of green data centers to
business models and GreenSLA solutions. The first section presents contributions in form of
position and short papers related to various European projects. The other two sections
comprise papers with more in-depth technical details. The topics covered include
energy-efficient data center management and service delivery as well as energy monitoring and
optimization techniques for data centers.