Re: Energy consumption vs % utilization?

[Alex Rubenstein <alex () nac net>]

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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