Intel Investments - A positive push for cloud computing

Cloud computing also means a more efficient use of internet , it looks like. The very large data centres means the smart economies of scales for power, man-power and communication bandwidth apart from the hardware, software costs for procurement and upgrades. If such data centres are populated with energy-saving servers the business and economy stands to gain. A simple reduction of mother board consumption from 115W to 85W in idle, estimates an energy savings of USD 8M on a cloud data centre 50,000 servers in three years time. This brings down the OpEx of cloud providers under the energy spending. Intel is serious about the intiative and may invest USD 7B over the next two years in the chip manufacturing facilities in US. Let us hope, the future of cloud computing is becoming brighter day by day.