Data centre dilemma: How online consumption is leading to higher energy use, costs

Despite innovations like a data centre housed on the ocean, experts fear progress isn't keeping up with usage

"This is the world's first highly efficient, highly sustainable waterborne data centre,"

"What we're doing here is moving water versus moving air, which is five times more efficient,"

"With the advent of big data, as cloud technology further progresses, you're going to see more and more advanced IT technology — the server infrastructure, the equipment, the storage devices — they will continue to draw more and more power,"

"Data centres are the new modern-day factories,"

"For every unit of energy that goes into powering IT in an average data centre, you need another unit of energy to cool the data centre down,"

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