The recent utility failures in India show what can happen when creaking infrastructures with an expansion programme falling behind collide with an unprecedented growth demand curve.
I have been digesting the latest vicious assault that Greenpeace has made on the data-centre industry - with their naming and shaming of the social-network operators and their, so called, ‘dirty data’.
There has been a lot of talk for time now about adopting DC power for data-centres to improve their energy efficiency and, recently, ABB has purchased the sole vendor and the marketing money has stirred the debate even further.