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When efficiency improvements backfire

The company I work for helps optimize data center cooling and we save our clients millions in electricity costs but they just use those savings to buy more servers and I wonder if I am actually helping anything.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Optimization often enables expansion rather than reduction of harmful systems.

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“Where Are You with Energy consumption of data centers?”

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