Can blades be used to simplify power and thermal management?

It is kind of funny when I talk to customers about blade servers.  They are really jazzed about packing more servers in the same space.  But with blades comes other issues — managing power and cooling. Denser environments usually mean more power and more cooling, rather than less. So are these ideas – blades and managing P&C – mutually exclusive?  Aaron Hanson, senior manager PowerEdge Blade servers at Dell, doesn’t think so, as he says in his podcast.  Is he right?

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