Data centers waste energy by letting servers run at default settings

[ergophobe]

In a blog post this week, Uptime analyst Daniel Bizo wrote that simply enabling OS-level governors and power profiles could result in a 25 to 50 percent reduction in energy consumption. Scaled across a whole datacenter those savings add up pretty quickly.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/datacenters-bleed-watts-and-cash-all-because-they-re-afraid-to-flip-a-switch/ar-AA1qUdCh