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Government Looking into Saving Energy with Wireless Interconnects for Big Data Centers
📅 - Recently, the US government provided a grant to Rochester Institute of Technology's assistant professor because he believes energy efficiency can be achieved through wireless interconnects between data centers. Amlan Ganguly has published research papers not he topic and his project will actually test this theory.
The grant was for about $600,000 and came from the National Science Foundation. It will fund the project over the next five years. While the project has been described as high-risk, it's one that could bring significant power efficiency to data centers everywhere. .
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