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Datacenters And Sustainability

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The Evolution of Data Centers

According to the International Energy Agency, data centers account for about 1.5% of all global energy consumption. If you go to just the United States where I reside, it's 3% of electric power. What's really interesting about all of this is like the way that we typically talk about data centers, right? We talk about the cloud. It's very ephemeral, but they're very physical objects that need a very particular environment.

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