To be built on a temporary land area spanning 40 acres, the "modular" system is expected to generate 80,000 megawatt hours of energy annually, which will be tapped to power Amazon's operations including data centres and fulfilment facilities.
Apple, and other major data center operators, are trying to do the right thing. But it will be a long time before operating data centers becomes a carbon neutral activity
The dot-com bust is prompting a land crash, but it isn't in San Francisco housing prices--it's in the Web hosting business, as companies have spent billions on massive data centers around the country.
Is it a truck? Is it a giant portable wind tunnel? Well, yes -- but it's also a mobile datacentre with a maximum capacity of 4.1 petabytes of storage, which would easily hold an awful lot of high-res Superman footage.
Google has struck its first purchase power agreement in Europe, helping kick off a 72MW capacity wind project in northern Sweden.
The latest definition of data center is focused on being what's called fit-for-purpose, of using best practices and assessments of existing assets and correctly projecting future requirements to get that data center just right -- productive, flexible, efficient and well-understood and managed.
The search giant's €600m datacentre in the Netherlands will take up one wind farm's output for the next ten years.
HP aggressively went after IBM's x86 customers ahead of the Lenovo acquisition and had some success. Lenovo execs say it's now time to fight back and become the No. 1 server vendor. On Oct. 1, Lenovo will be No. 3.
One of the most disrespected, or maybe just misunderstood, pieces of technologies in many data centers (or under your desk for the matter) is the uninterruptible power supply (UPS), that lovely piece of equipment that provides a battery boost if you have a surge or an outage. Certainly, UPSes have taken on more tech-appeal along with the energy-efficiency movement, but probably we could all use a bit more education on their role in managing power more efficiently and cost-effectively.
First, Symantec published some enterprise survey results suggesting that businesses are exploring software as a service (SaaS) as a green computing option. Now, on-demand business applications company NetSuite has tied some specific metrics to the trend.
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