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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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Harness Heat & Power Consumption
Processor.com (Jan 14 2010) Carbon Tax
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Data centers aren’t the only things chugging along into the new year, as heat is anticipated to have yet another successful year of delivering headaches to infrastructure managers around the globe. However, by undertaking a project in 2010 that can help to keep temperatures and power consumption under control, data centers can force heat to look elsewhere to continue its productive run.
An easy approach to controlling rising temperatures is simply to throw more cooling at the heat, but then the data center faces increased power consumption costs. The challenge, then, is to achieve acceptable temperature levels while keeping an active eye on green IT measures.
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