Data Centers Continue to Proliferate While Their Energy Use Plateaus
Monday, June 27, 2016 - 15:01
in Physics & Chemistry
As the number of data centers continues to increase in the United States, the good news is that they are becoming much more energy efficient. A new report from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has found that electricity consumption by data centers nationwide, after rising rapidly for more than a decade, started to plateau in 2010 and has remained steady since, at just under 2 percent of total U.S. electricity consumption.