1. Data Centers In The Desert

    Forbes.com (Jun 15 2009) Fossil Fuel , Cloud Computing

    1. Data Centers In The Desert Why some of the largest companies in North America have chosen Arizona for their data centers. Building a data center in the Arizona desert sounds counterintuitive. In summer months, temperatures can soar to more than 120 degrees, which means huge cooling bills during the most expensive part of the day. And there are no cool winds blowing through as there are in the Columbia River Gorge in the Northwest, where Google is building a state-of-the-art facility. But that hasn't stopped most of the major banks and some of the other large corporations in America from situating data centers in the Phoenix area. Forbes caught up with Anthony Wanger, president of i/o Data Centers, to discuss the reasons. Forbes: Why build data centers in the desert? Anthony Wanger: The outside temperature has very little to do with the heat inside the data center. About 99.9% of the heat ... (Read Full Article)

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