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As an aside in the article: > There has been growing concern that the rapid expansion of the data centre industry could mean an explosion in energy use. But Em
by tomxor 8y ago
As an aside in the article:
> There has been growing concern that the rapid expansion of the data centre industry could mean an explosion in energy use. But Emma Fryer, who represents the sector at Tech UK, says that fear has been exaggerated.
> "What's happened is we've had the benefit of Moore's Law. The continued advances in processing power have made doom-laden predictions look foolish"
There may be other reasons that energy efficiency will continue to improve, but Moore's law, (More specifically in relation to performance per watt: Dennard Scaling), has long been at an end. Given her position it's fairly ignorant to sight this as a reason for a continued lower proportion of energy consumption growth by now.
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