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none of which are free. The mainframe requires significantly less of each of these resources and
thus one expects that the maintenance and repair costs would decrease proportionally. Even in
an existing facility with pre-existing power and cooling systems one could argue that running
these systems at a lower-than-maximum load level would prolong their useful life. It is certain
that doing so provides greater capacity headroom to handle temporary overloads from other
sources.”
