[LINK] Data Centers Waste Vast Amounts of Energy, Belying Industry Image - NYTimes.com

[Bernard Robertson-Dunn]

On 26/09/2012 10:49 AM, Jim Birch wrote:
> Bernard Robertson-Dunn <brd at iimetro.com.au> wrote:
>
>> The answer is no, it's not. It turns out that if you halve the clock
>> speed, the CPU power consumption drops to less than a quarter.
>>
> Good point, but these relationships apply to data centres too, and they are
> going to take them seriously if they have large power bills.

My comments were in the context of ICT equipment data centres.

Third part data centre operators have a conflict of interest. They wish 
to get as many customers and equipment into their facilities as possible 
because they want to maximise the utilisation of their capital 
investment. This works against power efficiency.

When you compare apples with oranges, profit usually wins. Unless you 
are government in which case minimum cost usually wins.

-- 

Regards
brd

Bernard Robertson-Dunn
Canberra Australia
email: brd at iimetro.com.au
web:   www.drbrd.com
web:   www.problemsfirst.com