A Ten years of the new millennium, the Internet has become an extension of our consciousness, one body system to take over screens and keyboards that provides a level of connectivity as a growing silo information. Our ability to put more content online can create the impression that the Internet is infinite, unlimited extension of the ether that exists at the material not having an unlimited volume of information in the zero space. A black hole. But the truth is that our way a little sloppy in ever-expanding line of physical implications that require large amounts of energy and occupy a space that is very real. True
architect and photographer friend (coincidentally friendship internet) Brandon Specketer planteba I recently an interesting question when it comes to how they use the Internet. "I look at a picture like that has published in The New York Times Magazine and wonder about our current rate of consumption in technology. What are the real environmental impacts of our collections online, forgotten images, and virtual waste? Speck has a point.
For most ordinary consumers, the digital space has become a commodity abundant, low cost. Since most of us have much more than necessary, the storage space can be seen as endless. How many people have maxed out the thousands of mega-bytes of space in a Gmail account? I used about 1.7% of what I offered blogger for this blog and much more de donde vino eso. Entonces, ¿cuál es el problema con utilizar ese espacio para moverse? Speck explica:
"Para usar mi sitio de fotos (a modo de ejemplo), la imagen quedó como una foto en un iPhone y ahora existe como un jpeg en algún lugar de los EE.UU. en los servidores de Flickr, duplicados y optimizados como una serie de archivos de imagen diferentes. Esta imagen es también el de un fichero automatizado de duplicados en mi sitio web Tumblr. Una imagen original subida desde mi iPhone ahora existe como única 7. Jpg en tres unidades de disco duro independiente (sin mencionar las copias de seguridad que existe). Esto no parece mucho, pero el tema se agrava cuando se observa servicios como Tumblr and the explosion of reblogging.
The Internet has a wealth of knowledge. In 2009, digital content is estimated at about 500 billion gigabytes. According to an article, "If the world's rapidly expansion of digital content to be printed and bound into books, would form a pile that would stretch from Earth to Pluto 10 times. "While all the ones and zeros can take up much space, it still ends up in the ranks of storage server racks located in data centers.
Data centers are small facilities that fit in the basement, but if large buildings full of computers. The amount of land consumed for building new data centers is increasing every day. Apple's new facility in North Carolina covering 500,000 square meters, the cost is nearly $ 1 billion dollars. Yahoo's site in Lockport, New York, has about 30 acres to build new data centers it is likely that forest were back then.
The data center market is estimated at about 40 billion U.S. dollars in 2009 with a rapid rate of growth shows few signs of reflux in the short term. As the quality of content and complexity continues to increase with things like video high definition multi-channel, without loss of sound, the amount of available storage space will grow in kind.
These complexes carry a correspondingly large energy requirement. A recent article by Katie Fehrenbacher Earth2Tech measures Unidense state energy consumption of servers worldwide in 123 million kilowatts in 2005 (about the same amount of energy consumption by more than 10 million households). That number is estimated to increase by 75% in late 2010. All this power is used not only to maintain and transfer information, but also for cool the hardware. Google says that the energy needed to cool these spaces can be 30 to 70% of energy consumption and be high. Greening
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Like anything else, is a more efficient way to build the components of the Internet. A recent report from Pike Research estimates that green data centers accounted for 28% of the market in 2015 to 41.4 billion U.S. dollars from the current 7.5 billion U.S. dollars. Google is proud of its 36 data centers worldwide, claim that they are among the most efficient of existence. By combining high-performance servers, cooling towers with recycling water on site, Google has managed to create some of the greenest data centers in the world, but the bar can be set even higher.
Even if the cooling towers can dissipate heat efficiently, it is still a waste of energy that is released into the air by mistake instead of being used. I was impressed and encouraged to find an article in World Changing: BRIGHT GREEN showing a new data center 2 MW comes online in Helsinki, Finland Academy Company. System uses water to absorb excess heat from their server and use it to heat local housing 500 before being recycled for reuse again. A radically more efficient. Beyond
engineering, in order to extend this technology to new data centers, they should be located near areas that can use the heat instead of miles away from civilization where land is cheaper . Commit to these higher levels of efficiency can ultimately raise the costs of location, but make a big difference in energy in the long term. Ironically, these buildings could draw a parallel with the old switching tower still mark the skyline of cities such as New York. Once used as switching stations to call fixed lines, skyscrapers such as the Verizon tower at 375 Pearl Street is looking for new uses such as calling phone has minimized the use of landlines. Almost without windows, the upper floors loaded with what is now an archaic form of technology to connect people. Our new data centers could perform a similar picture capable of producing steam for the city, or be integrated as the heating systems for high-rise residential or commercial.
Still, he has to be opportunities for people who know much more about web programming, I have to do to reach new forms of organization that may be more conscious of curbing this idea of \u200b\u200binfinite space. As first pointed Specketer, these vehicles have infinite space very finite lifespans and electronic waste continues to grow worldwide, and in the end most of it ends up in Asia, which are drawn by families seeking between insufficient amounts of this waste of precious metals. The future of server technology has to include components that can be recycled or, better yet, upcycled ( What is the difference? ). 
