Futuristic Data Center Efficiency Ideas
Five Futuristic Data Center Efficiency Ideas 1. Building a Data Center Under a Cathedral There are a ton of jokes we could make about building a data center under a church, but we’re gonna pass. Taking data center efficiency to a whole new level, the Atos data center was built inside a former bomb shelter 30 meters under the historic Uspenski Cathedral in Helsinki, Finland. This concept isn’t new, as various other data centers have been built inside caves and bomb shelters deep underground to take advantage of the cooler temperatures and security benefits. Additionally, the Atos Data Center will be using the nearby sea water to cool its servers. […]
The New Google Data Center in Finland
New Google Data Center in Hamina, Finland This week we decided to post a video about Google’s new data center build out in Hamina, Finland. This particular data center has created a lot of hype in the industry and we thought a lot of you would be interested learning more about this facility and how it’s data center design is using a sea water cooling system. It’s definitively an innovative approach. Let us know what you think.
Modular Data Center Designs, More Than Just a Trend?
Modular Data center Designs: It’s been more than five years since the unveiling of Sun’s Blackbox data center and modular designs are becoming more synonymous in the industry and with high-performance and cloud computing. Running servers in shipping containers was initially viewed as a niche play by many in the data center industry, limited to mobile requirements, temporary capacity, or novel designs like cloud computing facilities. But with enterprise users such as: HP, Dell’s Data Center Solutions Group, and eBay, having publicly announced an adoption of modular data center design into their data centers, it’s been affirmed that this is definitely more than just a trend. With the massive growth […]
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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, […]
