You know by now that I'm a big proponent of cloud computing (and doing my best to promote it). The cloud is a new way to provide and consume services but we often don't know how much energy large-scale data centers consume. The cloud won’t replace existing data centers -- actually just adding to the net number, IMHO. Many cloud services are being provided from existing data center, and there's no shortage of new facilities being built. So we will carry on running old data centers and cloud data centers concurrently.
Data center power consumption is a big enough issue that Micro$oft, Google, and others are developing innovative ways to tackle the problem -- not just because they are granola-crunchy, but because saving energy means saving money.
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