Most data centers, by design, consume vast amounts of energy in an incongruously wasteful manner, interviews and documents show.
The Vatican's communications operations are a striking example of the complex and wasteful manner in which the Church's institutions have evolved.
Much light pollution is the result of normalized inefficiency, either in the poor design of the instrument, and/or the often wasteful manner in which it is used.
In its cavalier and wasteful manner, "The Matrix," directed by the Chicago-based team of Larry and Andy Wachowski, achieves a brazenly chic high style — black-on-black, airborne, spasmodic.
NEW YORK TIMES The Wastefulness of Data Centers | A New York Timeses investigation found that data centers, the physical machines that power the information industry, "consume vast amounts of energy in an incongruously wasteful manner, interviews and documents show.
It is a shame, therefore, that employment subsidies in Tunisia will, in all likelihood, continue to be provided in a wasteful manner, with large deadweight losses.
Irrigation water is generally used in a wasteful manner, mainly through usage of traditional flooding and furrow irrigation techniques and for cultivating low value, high water-consumptive crops, without considering its economic opportunity cost for potable and urban/industrial purposes.
"Most data centers", James Glanz noted in his piece Power, pollution and the internet, "by design, consume vast amounts of energy in an incongruously wasteful manner... worldwide, the digital warehouses use about 30 billion watts of electricity, roughly equivalent to the output of 30 nuclear power plants".
Instead, the bank said, "the 'public interest' is served by sophisticated litigants compromising complicated matters in a manner that avoids wasteful litigation and exposing both parties to extreme results".
Here was Belgium back to looking uncertain again, with Hazard disappearing from the game, Lukaku left isolated and De Bruyne reduced to taking hopeful and ultimately wasteful pot shots from distance in the manner of England against Iceland.
Whereas phage can act essentially as a colicin-style nonmultiplicative killer when their carriers are numerically dominant, they do so in a less efficient manner due to their relatively wasteful capacity for replication (e.g. effective colicin 'burst-size' is at least 10-fold greater, Gordon and Riley 1999).
