[74981] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Energy consumption vs % utilization?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Rubenstein)
Tue Oct 26 15:08:58 2004
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 15:07:36 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
From: Alex Rubenstein <alex@nac.net>
To: james edwards <hackerwacker@cybermesa.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <00c201c4bb8d$35986860$0200020a@jamesnew>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Thats an insane statement.
Are you saying, "You are only wasting money on things if you aren't
profitable" ?
/action shakes head.
On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, james edwards wrote:
>
>>
>> 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.
>
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