It's time for IT teams, vendors to prioritize efficiency; here's where they should start
Servers and storage account for the lion's share of datacenter power consumption, yet while bit barns put increasing pressure on local utilities and try the patience of local residents and regulators, the vendors responsible for these systems have shown little interest in doing anything about it.
This complexity, Bizo contends, often results in poor capacity planning, where more power is provisioned than is actually needed. This, he adds, results in operators building new datacenters while existing capacity is left untapped and even greater pressure placed on local grids. Some of this is already taking place, particularly in power-constrained regions. Loudoun County in Northern Virginia is just one
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