{"id":7783,"date":"2013-06-11T23:23:44","date_gmt":"2013-06-11T23:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2013\/jun\/12\/cloud-computing-saves-energy-huge-scale-says-new-study-how\/"},"modified":"2013-06-11T23:23:44","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T23:23:44","slug":"cloud-computing-saves-energy-on-huge-scale-says-new-study-but-how","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/cloud-computing-saves-energy-on-huge-scale-says-new-study-but-how\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud computing saves energy on huge scale, says new study \u2013 but how?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have come up with a model designed to show the full extent of cloud&rsquo;s energy efficiency.<\/p>\n<p>The report, put together by a research team comprising McCormick School of Engineering Northwestern University and Lawrence Berkeley and part funded by Google, unveils the CLEER (Cloud Enery and Emissions Research) model, described as the &lsquo;first ever open-access, fully transparent systems model for energy analysis of cloud systems by the research community&rsquo;.<\/p>\n<p>What&rsquo;s more, the model predicts an 87% reduction in primary energy use if companies moved their business software &ndash; comprising CRM, productivity and email tools &ndash; to the cloud.<\/p>\n<p>The report rightly notes that not all modelling attempts are 100% accurate, but adds: &ldquo;Despite uncertainties, the energy savings potential of cloud-based software is likely to be substantial on a national scale given the vast differences between the energy efficiencies of local and cloud data centres &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have come up with a model designed to show the full extent of cloud&rsquo;s energy efficiency.<br \/>\nThe report, put together by a research team comprising McCormick School of Engineering Northwestern &#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-7783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7783","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=7783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}