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- noun Plural form of
brown-out .
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Conversely, when utilities limit power during certain times of the day (allocations, "brown-outs," etc.), the facilities and operations team does not experience the challenges (and complaints) of having to provide the same level of IT services with less computing power.
Cloud Computing Meets Energy Management William Clifford 2010
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Realistically speaking, if society is forced to generate electricity from low quality coal sources or to suffer chronic brown-outs, coal will be burnt.
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Conversely, when utilities limit power during certain times of the day (allocations, "brown-outs," etc.), the facilities and operations team does not experience the challenges (and complaints) of having to provide the same level of IT services with less computing power.
Cloud Computing Meets Energy Management William Clifford 2010
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Electrical grids are unstable because of surges as different sources are brought on and offline, leading to brown-outs and black-outs.
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Conversely, when utilities limit power during certain times of the day (allocations, "brown-outs," etc.), the facilities and operations team does not experience the challenges (and complaints) of having to provide the same level of IT services with less computing power.
Cloud Computing Meets Energy Management William Clifford 2010
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It left me wondering whether, with higher prices and the growing risk of brown-outs and even blackouts in the colder winter months, the energy giants - many of them foreign-owned - are not set to become the public bad boys they have long been in the United States.
Archive 2008-01-01 2008
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NIMBYism, Green campaigns, anti-nuclear protesters and the Labour Parties hatred of technology has left the country 3-5 years away from rolling brown-outs and a then blackouts.
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Electrical grids are unstable because of surges as different sources are brought on and offline, leading to brown-outs and black-outs.
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"In water, we don't have the option of brown-outs," Mr. Helliker said.
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"In water, we don't have the option of brown-outs," Mr. Helliker said.
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