Comments on: US data centers consuming as much power as 5 million houses https://www.pingdom.com/blog/us-data-centers-consuming-as-much-power-as-5-million-houses/ Website Performance and Availability Monitoring | Pingdom Tue, 08 Sep 2009 06:19:32 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 By: Sam https://www.pingdom.com/blog/us-data-centers-consuming-as-much-power-as-5-million-houses/#comment-9164 Tue, 08 Sep 2009 06:19:32 +0000 http://royalpingdom.wpengine.com/?p=327#comment-9164 And in other news, rain is wet, the pope is a Catholic, and bears generally prefer wooded areas in which to take a dump.

]]> By: Robert https://www.pingdom.com/blog/us-data-centers-consuming-as-much-power-as-5-million-houses/#comment-9163 Sun, 27 Jul 2008 03:36:18 +0000 http://royalpingdom.wpengine.com/?p=327#comment-9163 “Servers (and their cooling) in US data centers use the equivalent of a full year’s output from five 1,000 megawatt power plants.”

The phrase “a full year’s” is inappropriate: You are talking about POWER not ENERGY. POWER is the RATE of using energy. You could use a Megawatt for a fraction of a second, or continue for years.

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