Five surprising spots for new data centres

computerworlduk.com (Sep 18 2009) Construction , Power and Cooling

1. From an old nuclear fuel plant to a nonagenarian printing plant, old buildings are finding new life as data centres. Soaring data-crunching demands, coupled with energy shortfalls, have motivated companies worldwide to invest in new, green, state-of-the-art data centres. Some organisations have limited their green practices to the inside of newly constructed facilities, embracing modular grow-with-demand designs, energy-efficient IT hardware, virtualisation, DC power, and smarter cooling technologies. Others, however, have taken eco-friendliness a step further by transforming pre-existing structures into data centres. Today, we'll take a look at some of the more innovative and unusual facilities that companies have selected to house their datacenters. (Read Full Article)

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