As our world becomes ever more data centric, the data center and the energy it uses seems to become a focal point of criticism for groups such as Greenpeace and the Sierra Club, as well as many others.
Back in ancient Egypt, servants kept the Pharaohs cool by waving palm fronds over water-soaked reeds. A couple of thousand years later (on April 19, 2012, to be exact) Greenpeace activists in Seattle unfurled an 800-ft banner that read:
The data center uses free air cooling and has a PUE of less than 1.3.
October 17, 2013
Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny in the company of Michael Tobin, CEO and co-founder of Continent 8 Technologies opened the company’s ninth data centre worldwide in Dublin.
The facility will deploy a new cooling technology designed to decrease energy consumption, bringing site power usage effectiveness (PUE) to below 1.2.
October 10, 2013
Virtus has announced that construction work has commenced on LONDON2, its new flagship data center in West London, designed to meet the growing demand for scalable, reliable, on-demand colocation services.
In Part One, we discussed developing the program, and in Part Two we discussed site selection. This column addresses data center planning and the impact it has on total cost of ownership (TCO).