Google Planning Offshore Data Barges « Data Center Knowledge
Google has filed a patent for a “water-based data center” that uses the ocean to provide power and cooling
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How to Create an Energy-Efficient Green Data Center
If you can control where data is being written to and read from, and you can power drives off (as opposed to just spinning them down), you can then design array shelves that are more power-efficient. This means that lower-power shelves can be created that are not designed to power all the drives in a shelf. This leads to reduction in heat generated and power required, by delivering power only to the drives that need to be accessed to fulfill the data request.
The key elements in reducing power consumption of disk drives will require more than just new drive technology. It will require data layout intelligence, shelf and drive housing intelligence, and improved software to manage data integrity over time.
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Old Data Centers as Green as New | EcoGeek
Got an old data center. Making it more efficient can make it as Green as a new Green build according to a study by Accenture
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Computing | Down on the server farm | Economist.com
A thoughtful look at the thinking going into where data centers are located currently
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