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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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“ I have a goal for the team to reduce costs by 50 percent or more in the next-generation builds. ”
By Kevin Timmons
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Microsoft To Cut Data Center Costs in Half
Data Center Knowledge (Mar 11 2010) Construction , Container , Power and Cooling , Cloud Computing , Servers
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After years of investing up to $500 million in each data center project, Microsoft plans to spend about $250 million or less on each data center going forward. Microsoft data center GM Kevin Timmons said his goal is for Microsoft's data center network to be "incredibly scalable at awesome cost...
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