data center energy Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Thu, 27 Sep 2012 13:33:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Data Centers Could Work at Higher Temps to Save Energy https://www.greenoptimistic.com/data-centers-could-work-at-higher-temps-to-save-energy-20120927/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/data-centers-could-work-at-higher-temps-to-save-energy-20120927/#respond Thu, 27 Sep 2012 06:21:01 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=26125 The internet is a huge network of interconnected computers. Hundreds of thousands of servers quickly store, locate, and retrieve data, sometimes from halfway around the world, and usually thousands of times per second. This requires massive amounts of power, greater than 1% of the energy output of the entire world. For example, Google has about […]

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