Report: Cloud could slash biz software energy use by 87%

Study sees millions of redundant servers slurping power

If every US company would shift its core business-software applications from in-house equipment to the cloud, the amount of energy used by that software could be reduced by as much as 87 per cent, a new study claims.…

via The Register - Cloud

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