On 18 Dec 2019, at 15:57, Rod Beck <rod.beck@unitedcablecompany.com> wrote:

Energy efficiency is a hobby of mine and most of my properties embody Passive House Technology. This led me to wonder what is the inefficiency of these servers in data centers. Every time I am in a data center I am impressed by how much heat comes off these semiconductor chips. Looks to me may be 60% of the electricity ends up as heat.

Less than a 100.000th of the energy in a data center is used to run the applications in a datacenter as summarised in this graph:

The full talk by Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain View: https://youtu.be/wY_js13AuRk?t=1343

My research group has come up with supporting evidence for these claims. Our Wafer Scale Integration and new operating system software can actually achieve these savings.

Merik Voswinkel

Metamorph research institute