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How did a 550 percent growth in demand for data centers affect their energy use?

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Answer: (B) It caused their energy use to grow only about 6 percent.

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A research into the energy usage of Data centers was released in 2020 and showed that even though there has been a 550% growth in the demand for data centers, the energy needed to power them has only grown by 6%.

According to the scientists who conducted the research, the reason for this is that the data centers have a relatively high efficiency rate when it comes to energy usage such that data centers use only around 1% of the world's electricity.

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