Zombie spend money and trash it
One of the main ways that data centers use energy is to keep all those large, humming server machines cool.
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"Our concern is more about the other 95 percent," said Pierre Delforge, who co-authored the new report, which focuses on corporate data centers, small- and mid-size server rooms, and firms that manage data for a variety of clients, which are called multi-tenant data centers. Large companies such as Google, Facebook, eBay, and Microsoft are already highly efficient, a result of major resources and huge scale, but their share of electricity use is just 5 percent of total data center consumption in the United States. That's enough to power 3.5 million American homes. If those facilities were to cut electricity consumption by 40 percent-half of what is possible using the tools now available to improve efficiency-the electricity savings would amount to $3.8 billion and 39 billion kilowatt-hours, according to the report. data centers released Tuesday by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). These "zombie," or comatose, servers are among the examples of energy waste documented in a report about U.S. The high energy demand of those servers is well documented, but up to 30 percent of them are drawing power without actually doing anything. They're the repositories of all our computerized information. In nearly 3 million data centers across the United States, some 12 million machines serve up the emails, web pages, and files we access online every day.