Conventional data centers typically use just 10% to 25% of allocated disk space.

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Mr Collins told the Court of Session in Edinburgh that the amount of cell space allocated to an inmate was apparently half that available to a prisoner at Pentonville jail in 1841.

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But what's interesting now is that there's a political movement for affirmative action where black Brazilians are demanding representation space allocated to Afro-Brazilians in universities and in other areas where, you know, it represents economic advance.

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All service costs are already allocated: The flight attendants have to be on the plane anyway and there is space in the luggage compartment.

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Since your boss, not you, controls how much sporty space you have around your desk, you might not be surprised to learn that the average square feet allocated per worker hasn't changed in two decades.

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