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Water Tower Research is a leading equity research firm that provides research on micro, small and mid cap companies.

Water Tower Research was founded by Wall Street veterans after witnessing a fundamental shift in the investment research industry with the result being a declining knowledge base among investors, a lack of awareness and a shrinking pool of fundamental research being conducted on companies across the small-cap and micro-cap spectrum. The same issues are now increasingly occurring in the mid-cap space. This sea change within the investment community is impacting not only the companies themselves but also current shareholders and potential investors. With significantly less active sell-side sponsorship by Wall Street, a substantial information gap has developed between companies and various constituents in the financial community. The net result is fewer channels for insight and information to flow between companies and investors.

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<div><ul><li>Why are data centers so energy-intensive? Roughly half of the electric power demand of data centers is directly associated with the daily operation of IT equipment.</li><li>Computing chips typically consume the most electrical power inside a server and computing power and server systems account for ~40% of electricity consumption in a data center, while network and data storage equipment use ~10%.</li><li>That leaves water-intensive cooling for much of the remaining 50%.</li></ul></div>

Why are data centers so energy-intensive? Roughly half of the electric power demand of data centers is directly associated with the daily operation of IT equipment.Computing chips typically consume the most electrical power inside a server and computing power and server systems account for ~40% of electricity consumption in a data center, while network and data storage equipment use ~10%.That leaves water-intensive cooling for much of the remaining 50%.

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