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Speed & Access
We plotted speed and access against each other as a means of showing the inverse relationship b...
Moore's Law
Moore's Law is the observation, first made by Gordon Moore in 1965, that the number of transist...
Power Comparisons
We compared the amount of power that each facility outputs in a day against the amount a typica...
Comparing Impacts by Cooling Type
Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) = Facility power (kWh)/IT equipment power (kWh) Water Usage Ef...
Eras of Innovation & Historical Context
DatesEraInventionsHistorical ContextImage1880's - 1910Telegraphs & TelephonesThe world's first co...
Visualizing Water Consumption: US Data Centers
In 2023 alone, US data centers consumed an estimated 17 billion gallons of water. That's 52,171...
Trends in Data Center Efficiency
Recent years have witnessed a shift in the U.S. data center size, with the top panel showing ho...
Visualizing Water Consumption: Hyperscale Data Centers
Just one hyperscale data center uses about 200 million gallons of water per year; enough wate...
Introduction of Facilities and Size Comparisons
Conclusion: The drastic increase in square footage between the switch from Data Centers to Hy...
Immersion Cooling
Immersion cooling is a data center cooling method where IT equipment is directly submerge...
Air Cooling
Air cooling is a data center cooling method that uses fans and air conditioning units (often wi...
Free Cooling
Free cooling is a data center cooling method that takes advantage of local climate or geologic fe...
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