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Reducing Energy Consumption and Cost in the Data Center

Data Center Knowledge

One area of focus has been the massive energy consumption of data centers and the impact of storage. Data center managers are faced with planning for the future and the mandate to change their current rate of spending on equipment and operations, writes Rich Gadomski of Fujifilm Recording Media. Industry Perspectives'

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International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC14) Recap #HPCMatters

CTOvision

16-21 Nov 2014 the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC14) was hosted in New Orleans and once again it did not disappoint!

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Singapore government pushes energy-efficient data center plan

Network World

GW of data center capacity with at least 300 MW of additional capacity in the near term, with more to come through green energy deployments, it announced earlier this week. Singapore wants to go beyond that and reduce energy use for air-cooling by raising the temperatures at which servers and storage racks can safely operate.

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Are Chips, Storage, and Energy Availability Roadblocks to Innovation?

Information Week

The drive to push boundaries in AI, quantum compute, and other development might be held back by the material and power required to bring these creations to life.

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Pacific Northwest National Lab gets green light to design and build a $75M grid storage facility

GeekWire

This is an early, conceptual rendering of what the Grid Storage Launchpad facility could look like on the PNNL campus in Richland, Wash. The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) will begin designing and building a $75 million facility in Eastern Washington that will help develop massive batteries for grid energy storage.

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AI already uses as much energy as a small country. It’s only the beginning.

Vox

Paige Vickers/Vox; Getty Images The energy needed to support data storage is expected to double by 2026. In January, the International Energy Agency (IEA) issued its forecast for global energy use over the next two years. None of these trade-offs is as important as in energy. You can do something to stop it.

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Battery costs have plummeted by 90% in less than 15 years, turbocharging renewable energy shift

TechSpot

The IEA's "Batteries and Secure Energy Transitions" report finds that capital costs for battery storage systems are projected to fall by up to 40 percent by 2030. This significant cost reduction will make combining solar and wind with battery storage more affordable than building new coal or gas power plants.

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