Inside Microsoft's New 'Purpose-Built' Data Lab

greenercomputing.com (Sep 10 2009) Power and Cooling , Carbon Footprint , Cloud Computing , Servers

1. What happens when you remove engineers from their test servers? For starters, you get some nervous engineers. But eventually, you can also greatly expand your computing capability and speed up the research process. That, at least, is the hope that lies behind Microsoft's new 57,000 square foot Redmond Ridge 1 computing facility, which opened in July and which I toured yesterday with a small group of reporters and Microsoft executives. (Full disclosure: Microsoft paid for my plane ticket to attend a daylong tour of the corporate campus and meet with other teams at the company.) (Read Full Article)

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