One of the challenges with managing any data center is expansion. All too often, the data center is part of a larger facility that didn’t take into account the need for expansion when the building was first constructed. There wasn’t much to do about this issue except move; that is, until server vendors started rolling [...]

I ran across the video below recently — I enjoy a 3D walk-through that show the various aspects of a conceptual data center. I’ll have to admit though that I had not heard of (or maybe just forgot) Skanska. After a quick search, I do somewhat recall their name from the story last December where [...]

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Yahoo’s new data center in Lockport, New York will feature a new design that the company has dubbed the Yahoo Computing Coop. Chief Yahoo David Filo announced the new design today in a blog post, saying the name was adopted “because it looks like something chickens live in” and will use outside air to cool [...]

Google (GOOG) has begun operating a data center in Belgium that has no chillers to support its cooling systems, a strategy that will improve its energy efficiency while making local weather forecasting a larger factor in its data center management. Chillers, which are used to refrigerate water, are widely used in data center cooling systems [...]