Inside the World's Greenest Data Center

GreenBiz.com (Apr 7 2010) Cloud Computing , Servers

1. t's 360,000 square feet, large enough to hold eight 747 jumbo jets, and with its PUE of 1.2, Hewlett Packard's just-opened Wynyard data center is possibly the world's greenest large-scale facility. We've reported on the facility before, both when it was first announced and when it opened this year. But I spoke today with Ed Kettler, a Fellow and Green IT Strategist at HP Enterprise Services, to get some further insight into the project. Kettler talked about the challenge of turning a former shipping distribution center into a high-powered, highly efficient computing facility. "We were approaching it as a way of building a standard box, like we used to do," Kettler said. "But with rising energy costs, we got together and organized a design team to determine the problem we were trying to solve and find out if there's a more efficient way ... (Read Full Article)

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