2. Categories

      Data Center Design: Construction, Container, Data Center Outages, Monitoring, Power and Cooling
      Policy: Cap and Trade, Carbon Footprint, Carbon Reduction Commitment, Carbon Tax, Emissions
      Power: Biomass, Fossil Fuel, Fuel Cell, Geothermal, Hydro, Nuclear, Solar, Wind
      Application: Cloud Computing, Grid Computing
      Technology: Microblogging, Networking, Servers, Storage, Supercomputer

  3. Quotes

    1. “ There's a list of 30 or more criteria an owner-operator would consider before doing a multimillion-dollar investment in a new facility. ”
      By Jeremy Rodriguez
    2. “ If you don't know what you are consuming, you will continue to consume as much as you can, without consideration. ”
      By Jeremy Rodriguez

  1. Will pending law make California too costly for data centers?

    Data Center (Jul 26 2010) Power and Cooling , Carbon Tax

    1. Will pending law make California too costly for data centers? Anywhere in the country, building a data center is a major capital expense. And in California, a state with higher electrical rates and ambitious environmental goals, it may get even more expensive. A perfect storm of legislative possibilities is brewing in Sacramento with potentially reverberating effects for data centers being planned in the Golden State. Sifting through the legislative possibilities, there have been proposals for a state carbon tax, a cap-and-trade system, and the expansion of an existing standard, California's Energy Efficiency Standards for Residential and Nonresidential Buildings, Title 24, all of which could be costly to data centers. (Read Full Article)

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