Despite efforts globally, data centers still consuming an increasing amount of power

No matter how hard they try, data centers just can help being power hungry! And that’s what everyone realized from the Uptime Symposium 2010 recently held in New York. Virtualization and power management techniques have been thought of and used before. Even manure has been used to make up for HP’s hungry data centers, but all this never seems to satisfy their hunger, for power.

In early 2006, the U.S. Department of Energy predicted that data center energy consumption would double by 2011 to more than 120 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh), which isn’t really surprising, taken that the electricity usage from 2005 to 2008 by data centers has been increasing at an astounding 11% annually. And after all the efforts put into making them a bit more eco-friendly, the power stations haven’t seized on gobbling up power, instead increasing the consumption. New technology and a whole lot more cooperation by users around the globe might just help decrease power consumption by data centers before they meet their doom.
[Computerworld]