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This is probably the most suspicious figure in this entire post

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For every watt of power used in the server, we pay for another 1-2 watts of support power.

To get all this power, we have to pay for the infrastructure required to get the power into and throughout the datacenter.

This figure is widely cited, but I'm unsure about the original source.