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Server Power Consumption Doubled Over Past 5 years

Posted by Zonk on from the lets-get-that-fusion-thing-going-huh dept.

Watt's up writes "A new study shows an alarming increase in server power consumption over the past five years. In the US, servers (including cooling equipment) consumes 1.2% of all the electricity in 2005, up from 0.6% in 2000. The trend is similar worldwide. 'If current trends continue, server electricity usage will jump 40 percent by 2010, driven in part by the rise of cheap blade servers, which increase overall power use faster than larger ones. Virtualization and consolidation of servers will work against this trend, though, and it's difficult to predict what will happen as data centers increasingly standardize on power-efficient chips." We also had a recent discussion of power consumption in consumer PCs that you might find interesting.

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  1. poppycock! by President_Camacho · · Score: 0, Redundant

    That's complete nonsense! In the future, all computers will be a series of tubes, and computations will be done with water, not electricity!

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  2. Doubled in six years? by SNR+monkey · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I'm sure I read on Wikipedia the other day that server power consumption has tripled in the last six months.