This week, I'm going to be looking at issues of power consumption, techniques for reducing your power usage, and way of adjusting how you use, pay for and supply the power you need.

We'll start with a straightforward question:

Worried about power consumption in your datacenter?

There's a good rundown of the 6 things you can do now to fight power and cooling problems. There are some common tips here, but the article also mentioned the approach by many manufacturers to try and lower the power consumption of their CPUs and platforms, rather than simply relying on changing the way you use and deploy your computing power.