Energie, pollution et internet « InternetActu.net

Energie, pollution et internet | Xavier de la Porte
►http://www.internetactu.net/2012/10/01/energie-pollution-et-internet

La lecture de la semaine provient du New York Times, il s’agit du premier article d’une série consacrée au coût écologique du Cloud computing (informatique dans les nuages, le fait que nos données soient stockées, non pas dans les nuages, mais dans des infrastructures très matérielles). Le titre “Energie, pollution et Internet”, ce début d’article fait un résumé de la…

Power, Pollution and the Internet - NYTimes.com
►http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/23/technology/data-centers-waste-vast-amounts-of-energy-belying-industry-image.html?pagew

Enquête très complète

To guard against a power failure, they further rely on banks of generators that emit diesel exhaust. The pollution from #data centers has increasingly been cited by the authorities for violating clean air regulations, documents show. In Silicon Valley, many #data_centers appear on the state government’s Toxic Air Contaminant Inventory, a roster of the area’s top stationary diesel polluters. Worldwide, the digital warehouses use about 30 billion watts of electricity, roughly equivalent to the output of 30 nuclear power plants, according to estimates industry experts compiled for The Times. Data centers in the United States account for one-quarter to one-third of that load, the estimates show.

#pollution #énergie #internet #data #data-centers

Un petit aperçu des serveurs de #stockage du #cloud d’#Amazon évoqué ici ►http://seenthis.net/messages/87879

In Manassas, Va., the retailing colossus Amazon runs servers for its cloud amid a truck depot, a defunct grain elevator, a lumberyard and junk-strewn lots where machines compress loads of trash for recycling.

The servers are contained in two Amazon data centers run out of three buildings shaped like bulky warehouses with green, corrugated sides. Air ducts big enough to accommodate industrial cooling systems sprout along the rooftops; huge diesel generators sit in rows around the outside.