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"They've been doing a lot of data center efficiency and consolidation," Ms. Quarles said.
The traditional measure of data center efficiency is power usage effectiveness, or P.U.E.
One piece of good news is that cooperation has increased in recent years among companies eager to tackle the data center efficiency problem.
The report also lists 10 "game-changing improvements" intended to double data center efficiency, ranging from using virtualization software to integrated control of cooling units.
A number of cross-company consortiums, like the Green Grid, have sprung up (a symposium is being held this week in the Silicon Valley to discuss data center efficiency, with participation from several large multinational companies).
No company has longer experience in the care and feeding of data centers than I.B.M., and analysts say improving data center efficiency will involve applying some mainframe-style management disciplines.
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The report also lists 10 "game-changing improvements" intended to double data center efficiencies.
SeaMicro's fabric technology could offer greater data center efficiencies compared with the preconfigured systems.
The secondary outcome measures were a) the possibility to talk with the physicians and b) a service measure of call-center efficiency (number of calls necessary to be answered).
As James Hamilton of Amazon Web Services observed recently at a Google-hosted data-center-efficiency summit, there is no Moore's Law for power — while servers become progressively more powerful (and cheaper to deploy) and software boosts server productivity, the cost of energy (as well as water, needed for cooling) stays constant or rises.
According to report of NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council) the nation-wide data centers used 91 billion KWH (Kilo Watt Hours) of energy consumption in 2013, and it is estimated to reach around 139 billion of kilowatt hours by 2020 which is a 53%% increase compared to today's consumption [http://www.nrdc.org/energy/data-center-efficiency-assessment.asp].asp]
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