Is Global Economy’s Computing Power About To Peak?


	Is Global Economy’s Computing Power About To Peak?

JICWyllie

12-23-2008 7:02 AM

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economy, business, computing, i-crisis, i-forecast

JICWyllie says:

... and this just at the time when 'cloud computing' is about to shift more electricity demand from PCs to data centres.

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