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Energy-guzzling Data Centres Could Work Just as Well With Less Cooling

Irina Raicu, director, internet ethics, quoted by the New Scientist.

“Research that focuses on the reduction of energy consumption by data centres is very much needed, as is media coverage of the data centres’ environmental impact,” says Irina Raicu at Santa Clara University, California. “But technical improvements often involve trade-offs and, as the authors of this paper acknowledge, require careful study pre-implementation.”

 

Irina Raicu, director, internet ethics, quoted by the New Scientist. (paywall)

 

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