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Green storage

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IBM scientists estimate that water can be up to 4,000-times more effective in cooling computer systems than air. The new Power 575® supercomputer requires 80 percent fewer air conditioning units. The water-cooled Power 575 can reduce typical energy consumption used to cool the data center by 40 percent.
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Enables customers to power up, power down disk drives on demand; creates 20% cost-of-operation advantage.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's report to Congress in early August stated that the amount of energy consumed by servers and data centers, including storage, has doubled in the last five years, is expected to double again in the next five years and will cost $7.4 billion annually.