What, two "greenest" data centers in the same week?

ZDNet Technology News (Dec 2 2009) Construction , Power and Cooling , Servers

1. Not to be outdone by coverage of Helsinki’s “greenest” data center, IBM has seen fit to update the blog-o-sphere about its own energy-efficiency breakthroughs at a new green data center it has constructed at Syracuse University. Constructed in slightly more than six months, the 12,000-square-foot facility (which is split roughly in half in terms of data center space vs. infrastructure space) is expected to use roughly half of the power that a traditional data center of its size would use when it becomes fully operational in January 2010. IBM’s $5 million contribution to the effort includes IBM BladeCenter, Power 575 and z10 servers, as well as a DS8300 storage device. (Read Full Article)

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