A Shortage of Power in Data Centers?

Relocate (Feb 2 2011) Data Center Outages , Emissions , Cloud Computing

1. You don’t know what you have until it’s gone, right? If you’ve ever experienced a power outage (and most people have, either at home, at work, or both), you have probably realized just how much of everyday life depends on available energy. Electrical power is the lifeblood of data centers: it drives the computing equipment as it processes data, and it moves information from place to place both within the data center and without. Naturally, then, an impending shortage of power would be a direct threat to data centers. But is such a shortage on the horizon? Or, indeed, has it already arrived? (Read Full Article)

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