Thermal Energy Storage Technology in Data Centers for Cooling Servers
How One Data Center is Using New Thermal Energy Storage Technology: Google Embraces Thermal Storage in Taiwan for Cooling Data Center As part of Google’s ongoing efforts to cut costs and save power in its custom-built data centers, it will cool the servers in its new Taiwanese computing facility using a technique known as thermal energy storage. The project is part of the company’s ongoing data center infrastructure expansion in Asia, which so far also includes a data center in Singapore, as well as one in Hong Kong. The company is investing more than US$900m into its Asian expansion. On its website, it said it needed to prepare for the […]
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A Green Data Center Powered by Solar Arrays: Is It Worth All the Hype? Solar power is quickly becoming the hot new topic for the green data center, and better data center operations. Nothing else quite shouts “I’m going green” like installing a couple hundred acres of solar panels next to your power hungry, coal guzzling data center. Few things are more capable of blatantly making you look like you’re environmentally conscious. In an age where everyone is trying to care about the planet, it seems that installing a solar array is the industries way of doing it. But how effective and efficient are these solar panels really? Apple, Facebook, […]
