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Categories
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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
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CitiGroup Leeds by example
Computerworld (Oct 19 2009) Carbon Footprint , Emissions
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Jim Carney, executive vice president of data center planning for Citigroup, likes to describe the company's newest compute facilities as "24/7 by forever."
Inside a green data center
In data center life, that "forever" translates to a good 20 to 30 years -- at least for this New York-based global financial giant.
"We've succeeded in developing a very flexible platform that can adapt easily and seamlessly to changes in customer technologies and allow for differences in heat densities, power consumption and physical layout without causing severe interruptions to their service requirements," Carney says.
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