Burn coal, or improve your datacenter, says EPA

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We're facing a choice, says the Environmental Protection Agency: build more energy efficient data centers or choke on fumes.

The EPA issued a report today that said that energy consumed by data centers in the U.S. could rise to 100 billion kilowatt hours a year in 2011, a big jump from the 61 kilowatt hours consumed by data centers last year. Without changes or improvements in efficiency, the increase will require ten additional power plants.

That 100 billion kilowatt hours will cost $7.4 billion.

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