Cloud computing heading for brownouts, warns Cisco engineer

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Power systems will struggle to accommodate 120 megawatt data centres, warns Cisco

The cloud computing industry is heading for a future of brownouts amid widespread power shortages. That is the warning of a senior Cisco engineer, who points out that major new data centres curr...

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