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

[Jan Whitaker]

At 04:15 AM 24/09/2012, sylvano wrote:

>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/23/technology/data-centers-waste-vast-amounts-of-energy-belying-industry-image.html

Someone posted this in a newsgroup:


"Microsoft's Quincy data center, physical home of Bing and Hotmail, 
was fined $210,000 last year because
the data center used too little electricity. To avoid similar 
penalties for 'underconsumption of
electricity' this year, the data center burned through $70,000 worth 
of electricity in three days."

http://www.engadget.com/2012/09/24/microsoft-deliberately-wasted-energy-to-avoid-fine/




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