Dan Luu • 5/4/2015

We used to build steel mills near cheap power. Now that's where we build datacenters

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This article analyzes the underrated importance of power consumption for servers and datacenters. It details how power is lost multiple times through substations, UPS, voltage conversion, and server power supplies. Furthermore, it explains that 30-50% of power is used for cooling, making power and cooling infrastructure a massive capital and operational expense, often rivaling the cost of the servers themselves over a datacenter's lifetime.

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#power consumption #datacenter efficiency #hardware scaling
We used to build steel mills near cheap power. Now that's where we build datacenters

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