Cloud Computing Is Greener Than You Think
February 25, 2014
Grazed from CloudTweaks. Author: Daniel Price.
Last week we touched upon how a project in Finland had blended two of the world’s most important industries, cloud computing and green technology, to produce a data centre that used nearby sea water to both cool their servers and heat local homes. Despite such positive environmental projects, there is little doubt that large cloud data centres and social networking sites consume vast amounts of electrical power.
A recent Greenpeace report claims the Apple data centre in North Carolina uses more power than 250,000 European homes combined. Estimates now predict that cloud computing is responsible for as much as 2 percent of the world’s electricity use. Clearly, therefore, the data world uses extraordinary amounts of energy – but is it really all bad news?…
No Duplication
Migrating to the cloud and sharing resources saves considerable energy costs by removing the need to power countless duplicate data centres around the world…
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