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> In most data centers today, cooling accounts for greater than 40 percent of electricity usage. Assuming the only power usage in a DC is actual compute and co
by tgsovlerkhgsel 5y ago
> In most data centers today, cooling accounts for greater than 40 percent of electricity usage.
Assuming the only power usage in a DC is actual compute and cooling, that would mean 100 kWh of power used would be 60 kWh compute and 40 kWh cooling, or a PUE of 100/60 = 1.67.
According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_usage_effectiveness#Notably_efficient_companies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_usage_effectiveness#Nota..., this was already far from the truth in 2008.
Hard to take the article seriously after making claims like that. (Others are also correctly pointing out that the alleged "power usage per hour of video" numbers that this and similar articles like to cite simply don't make any sense.)