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Energy hogs: Can world’s huge data centers be made more efficient?

May 10, 2018

“Data centers are the factories of the digital age. These mostly windowless, featureless boxes are scattered across the globe – from Las Vegas to Bangalore, and Des Moines to Reykjavik. They run the planet’s digital services. Their construction alone costs around $20 billion a year worldwide. The biggest, covering a million square feet or more,…

How to improve data center energy usage

May 4, 2018

Sarina Soor

data, data centers, energy usage

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“Data centers are notoriously energy intensive, but business can take many different measures to reduce such energy usage, including using a containment system, virtualizing servers and storage and simply turning off idle equipment. According to research from the Global e-Sustainability Initiative (GeSI), data centers already consume more than 3% of the world’s total electricity and…

Energy Hogs: Can world’s huge data centers be made more efficient?

April 5, 2018

Sarina Soor

coal power, data, data centers, energy efficiency

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“Data centers are the factories of the digital age. The biggest, covering a million square feet or more, consume as much power as a city of a million people. In total, they eat up more than 2 percent of the world’s electricity and produce 3 percent of CO2 emissions, as much as the airline industry.…

As concern grows over bitcoin’s energy use, what’s next for cryptocurrency?

April 5, 2018

Sarina Soor

bitcoin, cryptocurrency, data centers, energy usage, server farms

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“Most anywhere else, his power demand for mining would have gone unnoticed. But Bowman runs Plattsburgh BTC, and the small city in upstate New York has improbably become the front line in a growing energy debate. Here’s the issue: Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency begun in 2009 that leverages blockchain technology in order to operate without…

Fact Sheet: Computer Rooms & Data Centers

January 12, 2018

Sarina Soor

CEC, computers, data centers, factsheet

“The 2016 Building Energy Efficiency Standards apply to all space conditioning systems serving computer rooms. The Energy Standards define a computer room as: “A room within a building whose primary function is to house electronic equipment and that has a design equipment power density exceeding 20 watts/ft2 (215 watts/m²) of conditioned floor area.” When the…