Lights Out
“First data centers ran out of space, then they ran out of cooling, and now they are running out of power. For each USD 1 of spend on hardware and software, a further 50 cents is spent to power/cool them. For the 16 million servers across 7000 data centres in the US, that amounts to 350 billion kilowatt hours – or around 2% of all the electricity in the US,” says Richard Muirhead, CEO and founder of Tideway Systems. So what can enterprises do?
