Data center cooling is a constant issue in both initial design and evolution. But a greater issue is the expense in dealing with the challenge. Beyond the cost of buying, installing and power the CRACs (Computer Room Air Conditioning) units is the very real expense of consulting. Typical estimates put consulting fees between $40,000 and [...]

Here’s an interesting story which illustrates the importance of cooling in where data centers are built. The city of Bluffdale, Utah has agreed to annex more than 500 acres of land where the huge new National Security Agency data center will be built.  The annexation of the unincorporated land is being made at the request [...]

Google Trends to search the “green data center” topic. The Green Data Center topic has ridden the wave of overall data center coverage by the media. In 2006 is when I started researching the green data center topic, then in Oct 2007 is when I published an article in Microsoft’s TechNet magazine on green data [...]

Just how serious are the major platform providers taking the containerized data center movement? Serious enough to warrant continued investment and a steady rollout of new products. No one is under the illusion that the enterprise industry will suddenly get “container fever.” But with data needs on the increase and demand for rapid scale-out of [...]

Google plans to serve live traffic from the world’s first seawater-cooled data centre in Finland in the fall of this year, according to Google’s Joe Kava. The seawater-cooled data centre is unusual even for Google, a pioneer of experimental technology, which builds its own servers, experiments with making solar thermal receivers and created a subsidiary [...]