{"id":6960,"date":"2013-04-14T23:22:05","date_gmt":"2013-04-14T23:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2013\/apr\/15\/are-we-misjudging-clouds-environmental-impact\/"},"modified":"2013-04-14T23:22:05","modified_gmt":"2013-04-14T23:22:05","slug":"are-we-misjudging-the-clouds-environmental-impact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/are-we-misjudging-the-clouds-environmental-impact\/","title":{"rendered":"Are we misjudging the cloud\u2019s environmental impact?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A whitepaper from Melbourne&rsquo;s Centre for Energy Efficient Telecommunications (CEET) has cast doubt on traditional thinking regarding the energy consumption of cloud computing.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Previous analysis and industry focus has missed the point,&rdquo; blistered the Power of Wireless Cloud report to open its executive summary. &ldquo;Access networks, not data centres, are the biggest threat to the sustainability of cloud services.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>As straight to the point as this is, what are the underlying reasons behind this summation?<\/p>\n<p>According to the researchers, the wireless infrastructure is a more fundamental part of the cloudy ecosystem, with data centres just a part of a larger space. &ldquo;Wireless cloud is a surging sector with implications that cannot be ignored,&rdquo; the report notes.<\/p>\n<p>This certainly raises an interesting point, and the statistics provided by CEET unsurprisingly bear this out.<\/p>\n<p>Wireless access network technologies account for 90% of total wireless cloud energy consumption, with data centres only &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A whitepaper from Melbourne&rsquo;s Centre for Energy Efficient Telecommunications (CEET) has cast doubt on traditional thinking regarding the energy consumption of cloud computing.<br \/>\n&ldquo;Previous analysis and industry focus has missed the point,&amp;rdqu&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}