Data Center Power Consumption Explodes in USA

[mandy]

Data centers in the United States are consuming 5 million kilowatts of energy per year, an amount equal to the power consumption of the entire state of Mississippi, according to a report released Thursday. The findings are a warning to decision makers to increase the efficiency of servers and microprocessors...

The study is the first to accurately calculate the amount of energy consumed by data centers each year, Allen said. To remain up and running, data centers alone required a full year's output from five 1,000 megawatt power plants -- the size of a major nuclear or coal-powered plant...

Data centers and related infrastructure consumed about 1.2 percent of the total energy demanded by the U.S. in 2005, or about the same amount as all of the color televisions in use across the country...

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