Internet Giants Could Slash Energy Costs 40 Percent With Smart Rerouting Algorithm
A routing algorithm can channel Internet data to locations where electricity prices are cheapest Moving computing from the desktop to the 24/7 data centers of the "cloud" may be the way forward (just ask Google), but it will come with a hefty energy price. Teams at MIT and Carnegie Mellon University, however, are developing a smart algorithm that could reroute Internet traffic to where energy is cheapest at any given moment, potentially saving millions of dollars in energy usage. Related Articles A Look Inside the Data Centers of "The Cloud" Greening the World of Warcraft? Innovative Computing Power Solutions Tags SciTech, Jeremy Hsu, algorithm, cost savings, electricity price, energy, Internet, rerouting, usage The teams from MIT and Carnegie Mellon worked together with Internet company Akamai...