2. Categories

      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

  3. Quotes

    1. “ The servers will operate fine up to about 98 degrees. ”
      By Chuck Doughty
    2. “ We'll start seeing water-cooled racks in the future to save more energy so we'll be able to design around racks at 15 kilowatts to 20 kilowatts. ”
      By Chuck Doughty

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  1. The Cold Truth About Data Centers

    Forbes.com (Dec 1 2009) Cloud Computing , Servers

    1. The Cold Truth About Data Centers It's often been said that the coolest place to work in a company is in the data center--literally. Racks upon racks of machines generate a lot of heat, and the fear is that they'll stop working if the heat goes too high. So while most employees sweat it out in an ecologically acceptable 78 degrees Fahrenheit during summer months, data center workers are kept well refrigerated--something that accounts for the exorbitant power bills for many data centers. In fact, the power bill for cooling many data centers is now one of the biggest operational expenses in a company. (Read Full Article)

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