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Data centers are using two percent of the world’s energy

November 20, 2018

Via: TechSpot

Why it matters: As more data centers are built and global energy consumption continues to rise, powering all of the high tech servers inside reliably is going to require building more resilient energy grids. Downtime is a very expensive event for a data center, which will only be amplified as cloud computing becomes more critical to daily life.

Across the globe, data centers are consuming in excess of 416 terawatt hours of electricity annually. This equates to around two percent of the world’s energy produced. Even at wholesale pricing for electricity, data centers are still demanding tens of billions of dollars worth of energy.

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