Data centers consume more than 4.5 billion kilowatts of energy a year, enough for 700,000 single-family homes, according to a 2007 Berkeley National Laboratory study. The importance of energy efficiency becomes apparent as the cost to run these computer information processing centers — $594 million a year — ends up being passed along to their customers. ...
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