But the benefits of
increasingly powerful data centers come at a steep cost in energy usage: as much as 61 billion kilowatt - hours in the U.S. alone — 1.5 percent of the country's entire electricity consumption.
Not exact matches
Plentiful online scientific databases offer terabytes of
data for scientists to mine with their desktop computers, while model genera like Drosophila (fruit flies) are available for experiments in
increasingly powerful laboratory spaces.
The need to accelerate the adoption of interdisciplinary approaches is even more compelling in an era with
increasingly complex problems, vast
data sets, and
powerful research tools.
With more
powerful computers, larger databases and novel ways to use the
data being developed,
data analytics could become
increasingly important to researchers synthesising new materials.
«Based on the clinical evidence we've gathered over the past decade in our cancer vaccine trials,» Old said, «and in light of
data from a variety of trials by others within the field, we believe therapeutic cancer vaccines will
increasingly emerge as one of the safest and most
powerful ways to combat a variety of cancers.»
But I have been watching the big Internet companies get larger and more
powerful, getting thirstier and thirstier for our
data, while alternative, more «Open Web» models become
increasingly marginalized.
Mobile devices are
increasingly powerful and employees utilize to access vast swathes of
data, including sensitive information related to their work.