IDG Contributor Network: While digital growth explodes, energy use remains flat

An authoritative analysis titled the “United States Data Center Energy Usage Report” has just been released from the U.S. Department of Energy, and it contains shocking conclusions regarding electricity. After energy use grew with wild abandon through the first decade of the new millennium, approaches such as cloud and virtualization have driven so much efficiency that U.S. data center electricity use has barely budged, even as virtually every dimension of our world has become m