Data Centers Waste Vast Amounts of Energy, Belying Industry Image - NYTimes.com
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Google’s data centers consume nearly 300 million watts and Facebook’s about 60 million watts.
“You do have to take into account that the explosion of data is what aids and abets this,” said Mr. Taylor of the Uptime Institute. “At a certain point, no one is responsible anymore, because no one, absolutely no one, wants to go in that room and unplug a server.”