Is 12 percent energy utilization in the data center too low?
The New York Times sparked a small firestorm in the blogosphere Sunday when it ran a front-page article titled "Power, Pollution and the Internet," accusing data centers of wasting vast amounts of energy and poisoning the planet. The article, which is the first in an investigative series on how the infrastructure behind the web affects the physical environment, cites an estimate that data centers consume 30 billion watts of electricity annually but put only seven to 12 percent of it to use actua
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