Our increasingly data-centric society has required an exponentially growing capability in large-scale infrastructure to store and process data. Although advances in silicon technology have historically provided exponential gains in both cost and energy efficiency, two factors will make the energy-efficient design of data centers of critical importance in the future.
First, increased demand for datacenter infrastructure is on a faster exponential than Moore’s law (Fig. 1).
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Chong, F. (2018). Data Center Energy Efficiency. In: Liu, L., Özsu, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8265-9_80642
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