Green Information Technology A Sustainable Approach Dastbaz Pattinson Akhgar

Green Information TechnologyA Sustainable Approach\nAuthor(s): Mohammad Dastbaz, Colin Pattinson, Babak Akhgar\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Elsevier Science & Technology, United States\nImprint: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers In\nISBN-13: 9780128013793, 978-0128013793\nSynopsis\nWe are living in the era of \""Big Data\"" and the computing power required to deal with \""Big Data\"" both in terms of its energy consumption and technical complexity is one of the key areas of research and development. The [url] Environmental Protection Agency estimates that centralized computing infrastructures (data centres) currently use 7 giga watts of electricity during peak loads. This translates into about 61 billion kilowatt hours of electricity used. By the EPAs estimates, power-hungry data centres consume the annual output of 15 average-sized power plants. One of the top constraints to increasing computing power, besides the ability to cool, is simply delivering enough power to a given physical spa.