<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/2de2f9a2-a87c-4fd4-889b-1905e7824fd9/E531E61D-D93D-46F6-85D6-B79DED99B419/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.psfk.com/2009/10/infographic-how-much-power-does-it-take-to-power-the-internet.html" href="http://www.psfk.com/2009/10/infographic-how-much-power-does-it-take-to-power-the-internet.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.psfk.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.psfk.com/2009/10/infographic-how-much-power-does-it-take-to-power-the-internet.html"><H1> (Infographic) How Much Power Does it Take to Power the Internet?</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.psfk.com/2009/10/infographic-how-much-power-does-it-take-to-power-the-internet.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.psfk.com/img/D3DF76AE-3DE6-46DB-AE48-5C388B5768E5" alt="(Infographic) How Much Power Does it Take to Power the Internet" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.psfk.com/2009/10/infographic-how-much-power-does-it-take-to-power-the-internet.html"><P>The amount of energy consumed around the world by data centers full of servers is massive. <A target="_blank" href="http://www.americainfra.com/news/powering-online-obsession/">US Infrastructure</A> reports that between 2000 and 2005, energy used by data centers doubled in both the US and worldwide. These numbers will only continue to grow in the times ahead.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.psfk.com/2009/10/infographic-how-much-power-does-it-take-to-power-the-internet.html"><P>GDS International sent us their most recent infographic (click to enlarge above) which helps visualize this significant power usage by the collections of servers in the US that help power the Internet.</P></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.americainfra.com/news/powering-online-obsession/" href="http://www.americainfra.com/news/powering-online-obsession/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.americainfra.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.americainfra.com/news/powering-online-obsession/"><P>The likes of Microsoft and Yahoo however have found unique ways of cooling their servers - outside climate. 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