The Massive Energy Bill Behind Your Data
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How will we offset the rapidly increasing power consumption of data centres? Hyperscale has plucked the low hanging fruit. What’s next?BalticServers.com [CC BY-SA 3.0 (►https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], from Wikimedia CommonsPop quiz: Which organ of your body uses the most energy?It’s the brain, of course.Your brain uses up to 20 percent of all the calories you consume each day.Maybe that explains why we’ve readily accepted that computers will use a huge amount of energy in processing, and emit so much heat that they also create a secondary power need to cool them down?We are becoming increasingly aware of the amount of energy the data centres supporting our favourite social media sites, film & music streaming services and online shopping are using, and are expected to use (...)
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