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1-megawatt data center will amass $17M in electric bills over 10 years
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Posted: 2021-06-2601:08 AM. Last Modified: 2024-03-1902:32 AM
1-megawatt data center will amass $17M in electric bills over 10 years
Neil Rasmussen, chief technical officer of data center equipment supplier American Power Conversion, calculates that even a 1-megawatt data center will amass $17 million in electric bills over its 10-year life span. Even so, few data centers have taken obvious steps to reduce that cost.