Changes to Make Data Centers More Energy Efficient
Introduction The rapid rise of AI demand has significantly increased the demand and cost of energy. As this happens, data centers are required to be more energy efficient. This article explores the specific and impactful changes we can make to the data centers to make them more energy efficient while maintaining the performance. Where Data Centers Consume the Most Energy Data centers are energy intensive facilities. Its demand is driven by the computing operations and the infrastructure that supports them. Cooling sys…
British colonialism in India
In the 1700s much of India was divided into individual principalities and different empires. Following the British victory at the Battle of Plassey, some Indian princes were removed from their positions of power by the East India Company’s private army. This army was largely made up of Indian soldiers called sepoys. Image by 0fjd125gk87 from Pixabay However, other Indian princes kept their positions if they promised to support the East India Company and favour British interests. Some ordinary Indians turned British control to their financial…
The Rise of US Dollar
More than 61% of all foreign bank reserves in 2019 are held in US dollars. Dollar is the thing which made the economy of the US so strong. But how did this happen? How did the US dollar become the global reserve currency? After World War II, 44 allied countries came to an agreement and created the Bretton Woods agreement in New Hampshire for the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference, also known as the Bretton Woods Conference. The goal was to fix the exchange rate of all foreign currencies to the U.S. dollar, where the U.…
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“A single shelf of a good European library was worth the whole native literature of India and Arabia.” - Thomas Macaulay
Thomas Babington Macaulay is said to be the father of education of the Indian subcontinent. He wanted to create a pool of Indians who would be able to serve British interests and be loyal to them. This class would be “Indian in blood and colour, but English in tastes, in opinions, in morals and in intellect.” Macaulay wanted the government to spend money only on imparting western education and not on oriental education. He advocated the shutting down of all colleges where only eastern philosophy and subjects were taught. He wrote in his book…
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