New York Times criticizes data center for Industry critics

Recently, in the United States "New York Times" published an article called "Cloud Factory", author James Glanz The data center as a devouring energy, waste of productivity of the beast, sparking the data center industry people's anger.

His article, titled "Energy, Pollution and the Internet", wrote that "most data centers are designed to have large amounts of energy in very unbalanced ways, and many reports confirm this." Many network companies are pressing the limits of the equipment in the room day and night, ignoring the actual computing needs. Http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/13056.html "> Times Magazine found that data centers can waste 90% of the power supply in the grid. ”

People from all walks of life have blamed:

In the Forbes article, "Why The New York Times's" view of energy, pollution and network errors ", author Dan Woods a few points to refute, first server utilization is unknowable, even if Facebook and Google do not share their data. Second, "while the article mentions that virtualization and cloud computing may be a solution to improving energy efficiency, there is no mention of VMware." If the journalist and VMware have spoken, or have been on their website, they should know that many data centers have increased server utilization through virtualization. ”

Diego Doval in an article in the Pando daily saying what many people want to say: Unless you're an IT professional working in a data center, you're not going to be able to make a precise report on the industry. "This article is jumping to conclusions, describing our engineers and operators as a group of idiots who only know how to operate a machine in the computer room, never paying attention to business costs and environmental issues. ”

In the article "GigaOM", published in the "New York Times View from 2006", author Katie Fehrenbacher admits that the New York Times is partly right, but lacks detail and ignores the development of data center energy efficiency over a few years. "The data center managers of major Internet companies (Facebook, Google, Yahoo, etc.) are focusing on the energy efficiency of their latest data centers, using a variety of new technologies. New models of Low-power chips and servers are also being developed, such as AMD's recently acquired Seamicro. And that article ignores that. ”

The author of "Cloud Factory", Tim Carmody, said in an article in the verge that the authors of the paper are scathing about the waste of resources by industry giants such as Google and Facebook, while trying to prove to the outside world that they are environmentally conscious. Carmody that our lives are now inseparable from the digital world, and this article "focusing on useless media and entertainment" does not really solve the problem that cloud computing is becoming an increasingly critical element in infrastructure, energy, government agencies, and commercial finance.