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From Lauraibm

Full article: Put your data centre on an energy diet (27-Aug-07)

A study conducted in 2005 showed that within the year organisations worldwide spent $7.2 billion to provide their servers and associated cooling and auxiliary equipment with 120 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity (double the power used in 2001). This growth in power seems to be occurring among volume servers.

A number of suggestions have been made to deal with the problem; one such suggestion is to install more modular power gear that scales as its needs grow. Further proposals covered using combined heat and power or building data centres that operate off DC rather than AC power, such an approach would eliminate the amount of power wasted.