Lighting accounts for about 7% of the total electricity consumed in the US. Since lighting is often far removed from the power source—such as the distance from a power plant to street lamps on a remote highway—a lot of energy is lost during transmission.
China accounts for 35% of global rice production and 2/5 of total domestic grain production. About 55% of rice yield is consumed directly as cooked rice. Only 6% is used for processing in China.
As the cooling process accounts for 40% of the power consumed in data centers, vendors are innovating and testing techniques to reduce the operational expenditure associated.