[74978] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Energy consumption vs % utilization?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (james edwards)
Tue Oct 26 14:54:58 2004
From: "james edwards" <hackerwacker@cybermesa.com>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 12:54:23 -0600
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
>
> Sorry, this is somewhat OT.
>
> I'm looking for information on energy consumption vs percent utilization.
> In other words if your datacenter consumes 720 MWh per month, yet on
> average your servers are 98% underutilized, you are wasting a lot of
> energy (a hot topic these days). Does anyone here have any real data on
> this?
>
> Grisha
It is only waste is the P & L statement is showing no profit.
