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Down on the server farm.

This article reports on the use of server farms to hold data centres for industry computing. As of 2008, data centres are housing increasing numbers of machines and requiring more power to run. The article discusses energy consumption for companies such as Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft, as well as t...

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Published in:Economist Vol. 387; no. 8581; pp. 83 - 85
Format: Article
Published: Economist Newspaper Limited 5/24/2008
Subjects:
Data warehousing
Client/server computing
Internet servers
Energy consumption
Hewlett-Packard Co.
Microsoft Corp.
Yahoo! Inc.
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost