Energy consumption for computing is improving just as fast as processing power. But, Koomey's Law is that at a fixed computing load, the amount of battery you need will fall by a factor of two every year and a half.
For UPS customers, it means that your typical server will need less and less power to operate. We allready see that in our business, where new baseline servers sip power at only a fraction of the older cousins. In the near future, the same server that meets your business's needs today might run on a Iphone or small frame unit using 30 or 40watts.
