"The New York Times": 90% of the Power is wasted by the cloud data center

Cloud computing has attracted people's attention with its flexible provisioning and cost savings, but the New York Times has made a different sound, thinking that cloud computing has been evading its energy-saving problems and is a veritable power-hungry person, please see detailed reports.
　　
Speaking of "cloud" service, this is definitely the hottest technology at present. Why do you say that? Because the technology has penetrated into many areas, including social software, resource data sharing, and its prospects are fully optimistic. Even a game maker said shortly ago that "cloud game" would be the ultimate direction of future development in this field. But the technology that the big companies have high hopes for is not as perfect as one might think.
　　
In a recent report, the New York Times said the data center, which provides basic support for "cloud" services, is actually a very low energy efficiency guy. According to the results of the tests, the data centers only use about 10% of the total power energy that sustains its operation for data processing, while the remaining 90% of the power is used to keep the server no-load and other ancillary equipment running.
　　
And to better prove that the data center is a total power-hungry, the report also cited Google and the two Facebook home as an example. Google's global data center consumes about 300 million degrees a year, a figure that exceeds the annual consumption of 30,000 U.S. households. Facebook, by contrast, is slightly better, consuming about 60 million degrees a year, thanks to its new data center's excellent energy-saving designs.
　　
In addition, the report quotes one of the industry's executives as saying: "The problem of energy waste has been there and has become a reality that the industry is trying to avoid." At least no one has yet been willing to acknowledge these issues openly. ”
　　
However, we have to admit that the implementation of "cloud" technology has caused a lot of waste of energy, but also for people's lives to provide convenience. This technology is indeed the future of data transmission and sharing in the field of the main direction of development, and we can only hope that it can become more efficient.