Worldwide electricity used in data centers

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Koomey, Jonathan G ^a,b  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computers; Data center; Data center electricity use; Electricity demand growth; Information technology; Server farm

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERS; DATA COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; DIGITAL STORAGE; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

ASIA PACIFIC REGION; DATA CENTERS; ELECTRICITY DEMAND GROWTH; ELECTRICITY USE; ELECTRICITY-CONSUMPTION; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY EQUIPMENTS; POWER DISTRIBUTIONS; SERVER FARMS;

ELECTRICITY;

EID: 54749110679     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/3/3/034008     Document Type: Article

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