Cloud computing slows energy demand, U.S. says

Ten years ago, power usage at data centers was growing at an unsustainable rate, soaring 24% from 2005 to 2010. But a shift to virtualization, cloud computing and improved data center management is reducing energy demand.
According to a new study, data center energy use is expected to increase just 4% from 2014 to 2020, despite growing demand for computing resources.
Total data center electricity usage in the U.S., which includes powering servers, storage, networking and the infrastructure to s