Cloud Computing Will Save Energy? Not So Simple

Reuters.com (Dec 9 2010) Carbon Footprint , Cloud Computing , Servers

1. The analysts at Pike Research came out with a report this week that claims that the adoption of cloud computing will lead to a 38 percent reduction in worldwide data center energy use by 2020, compared to what the growth of data center energy consumption would be without cloud computing. While the folks at Pike are smart guys, I’d like to respectfully disagree with such a simplistic finding. (Read Full Article)

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