Data Centers Make the Big Time

blog.tmcnet.com (Sep 27 2011) Carbon Footprint , Wind , Cloud Computing

1. When USA Today starts talking about data centers, the sector has hit the big time. The USA today ran a piece about the secret rooms that run the Internet. You'd think they were talking about the NSA rooms that read every single piece of email. QTS Atlanta Metro Data Center is the second largest data center in the world with 990,000 square feet of total space (of which 300k sf is raised floor space) and its own on-site Georgia Power substation. There is a lot of talk about green when it comes to data centers. (See this article about dirty data centers in InfoTech mag.) As data center space grows, so too does power consumption. I got to speak with Tom Burns of Greenhouse Data in Cheyenne, Wisconsin, "the planet's greenest data center". Greenhouse offers managed hosting, vCloud, virtualization,and collocation, utilizing "40% less energy than its ... (Read Full Article)

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