Data center energy questions spark heated debate

Ladies and gentlemen! Are you ready to rumble?! It’s time for Data Center Energy Use Smackdown 2012! OK, so things have been a little more dignified than that, but the start of  The New York Times’ series “The Cloud Factories” certainly ruffled some IT industry feathers. In this week’s CIO Searchlight, we gathered up some of the more dignified entries in the counterstrike. Also: if that verbal pugilism gets too ugly, we soften things up with yet another tablet release timed for holiday shopping convenience and RIM offering up one of the most uncomfortable “romantic” pleas this side of a public marriage proposal diss. If Tim Cook releases a version of “Lovin’ You” to follow up his apology for Apple Maps, we’re outta here.

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Even if he could hit the high notes, there’s no way he’d pull off the overalls.