Data Centers Use 90% More Electricity

Data Centers are using 90% more electricity. Although it's not because of the price of electricity, it is the amount of servers that each data center houses. The main factor as to why such as large increase can be attributed to the amount of smaller low end servers. These lower end servers are used for VoIP, video and music. A way to stop such an increase from continuing is using virtualization software. This will reduce the physical number of servers needed thus reducing the amount of electricity needed.

[Via InformationWeek]