Scientists discovered that by adding 30 lines to the Linux operating system, they could dramatically reduce the amount of energy that data centers consume.
Researchers in Canada have discovered a method to reduce the energy that some data centers consume by as much as 30%. In 2022, the global electricity consumption by data centers was estimated to be between 240 and 340 terawatt-hours, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA) . This is between two and three times as much as cryptocurrency mining, while computing as a whole is responsible for 5% of all energy consumption around the world, the scientists said. What's more, data center energy consumption is expected to grow further, according to Goldman Sachs , driven by the exponential growth of artificial intelligence (AI). But researchers at Waterloo University say they have developed a low-cost and simple solution that will cut consumption by almost one-third — and it centered on adding just 30 lines of new code to the Linux operating system Improving packet allocation Nearly all web traffic is routed through data centers, the majority of which use the open source operating system Linux. Information arrives in "packets", which are then…