AOL Makes Fridge-Sized Outdoor Micro Data Centre
AOL has deployed a single-rack “micro data centre” in Virginia, as part of a plan to move to remotely-managed “lights-out” systems.
The black box is designed to operate efficiently in different climates without staff attending it, so AOL can reshape its its IT infrastructure to be lighter and more flexible, push its computing to the “edge” of the network, and reduce its energy bills. The first micro data centre was plugged in at Dulles Virginia on 5 July, and is part of a strategy called “Nibiru” after a mythical planet that is said to cross our solar system periodically causing disruption.
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