EBay's Bet on Fuel Cells Will Influence Data Centers
When Dean Nelson, the vice president responsible for provisioning and consolidating EBay’s (EBAY) data centers, evaluated Utah as a site for EBay’s next mega-data-center project, he was mostly happy. It offered tax incentives, low latency for serving EBay’s customers, and the right workforce. But for one problem: “There was a challenge around getting clean power,” says Nelson. Utah has less than 3 percent renewable energy and generates 82 percent of its power from coal, according to data from 2009 provided by the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
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