Server Farms Suck A Lota Juice

[medyani]

And in other news: Greening Server Farms with. . . irrigation?A nifty article (nifty or "informative" mostly due to the info behind its links) about server farms and ways some in the industry are trying to reduce their massive power consumption. Massive? This article states that in the US server farms consume 1.5% of the energy outlay in the US (I

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Computers

[fdmts]

I learned a lot about this, out in Reno this past week. Cooling and energy efficiency are among the biggest differentiators that the computer companies have right now. It all comes down to the fact that when you multiply *anything* by 1,000, it becomes large.

Computers are best understood as devices that translate power into heat, and throw off a little bit of residual computation along the way.