Tech Volta

From arstechnica.com

According to the government’s best estimates, energy usage at data centers has doubled between 2000 and 2006, and it’s poised to double again by 2011.

That means our wonderful data centers will cost twice as much to run as they do today, which is a bad thing. I can definitely see our government leading us to greener pastures. Hopefully, Solid State Disks (SSD) will become more aggressively created and better power saving devices will come about.

Software will also play a crucial role in the deployment of future systems. Windows is a power hog in the essence that it needs beefier hardware requirements. And as just about everyone knows our nice friend Linux can run on much lower system requirements and give you the same or better performance.

Are we entering the age of solar powered server farms? I don’t think so, but that would be pretty sweet.