Agence France-Presse: Energy use by datacenters in the Asia-Pacific is set to double from 2005 to 2010 as growth in the region’s consumption outpaces the rest of the world’s, said a study released Thursday. The region excluding Japan will require electricity equal to output from two new 1,000-megawatt power plants by 2010 to run datacenters, which house computer systems, and telecommunications, storage and cooling systems, it said. The report, released by US chip giant Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), …