The Grill: Jonathan Koomey

Computerworld (Jul 13 2010) Carbon Tax , Cloud Computing , Servers

1. Professor, scientist and energy efficiency expert Jonathan Koomey, who recently finished a term at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, got the full attention of the IT community in 2007 when a research paper he wrote revealed that power consumption by data centers worldwide had doubled in just five years. Here, he discusses how the industry has responded to those runaway costs, why cloud computing is better for the environment, and why you should think twice about where you locate your next data center. Has the growth curve in data center power consumption moderated since your paper came out three years ago? We don't really know. We have some inkling that things have slowed down in part because of efforts to improve the efficiency of IT equipment and because of the economic slowdown. (Read Full Article)

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