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STRUCTURE 08: Data Center Power Guru Jonathan Koomey

Posted on June 25, 2008

Jonathan Koomey, a researcher at the Lawrence Berkeley National Labs and Stanford University, examines the world of bits meets atoms or the power of computing. Here s some notes:Data centers are not only the computing equipment, but power supplies and backup generators. How big an issue is data center power? I approached AMD to look at historical data center power use. In 2005 data center use was 1 percent of world s total electricity. Half of data center energy is for infrastructure equipment. US and Europe dominate data center power usage, but Asia Pacific is growing the fastest.Misp...

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