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earth2tech.com - 1/23/2009
Internet Power Growing, But Becoming More Energy Efficient
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With a record number of viewers watching video streams of the presidential inauguration this week, it’s not hard to see why energy consumption of the Internet has doubled between 2000 and 2006. And it’s just going to consume more energy as greater numbers turn to the web for ...

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The Inquisitr » Technology:  The Internet is using more power but doing it better

GigaOM Network:  Sun Focusing on Energy-Efficient Data Centers for Cuts In Cost, Carbon [Earth2Tech]

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The Internet is using more power but doing it better
The Inquisitr » Technology — ... That might sound like a lot but when you stop to think about it that doubling of energy usage is more of testament of a growing energy consciousness in the companies that manufacture the equipment used to power the Internet. Katie Fehrenbacher over at earth2tech.com pointed this out today in a post ...

Sun Focusing on Energy-Efficient Data Centers for Cuts In Cost, Carbon [Earth2Tech]
GigaOM Network — ... The power to run the Internet doubled between 2000 and 2006, but the Internet has actually started to become more energy efficient, as the amount of electricity per gigabyte of data transferred has dropped over recent years. That energy efficiency is partly due to more companies adopting efficient hardware in data centers. Other computing companies working on cutting energy and costs in data centers are Hewlett Packard, Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Brocade. ...

Ahead of Green::Net, Smart Networks Take Center Stage [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network — ... As far as I’m concerned, the sooner we start seriously discussing the energy impact of both the Internet in particular and broadband in general, the better. We also need to figure out how to make ...

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