Earth2Tech (Free subscription) | 07/26/2008
Data centers’ ability to suck up inordinate amounts of electricity is turning them into the Hummers of the computing world. And much like Hummers, their power-guzzling ways means they are becoming increasingly costly to run. We’ve already covered the efforts of companies to reduce heat, increase server utilization and build green data centers. Now [...]
GigaOM (Free subscription) | 07/28/2008
To paraphrase (and mangle) StarTrek’s famous tagline: Can Russia be the place where Internet companies boldly go looking for the final frontier of data center? At least one blog thinks so, and points to the massive hydroelectric power capacity on tap in Russia. An article in this week’s The Economist points to RusHydro, a Russian [...]
GigaOM (Free subscription) | 07/26/2008
A plan to combine cloud computing, fast broadband and renewable energy could reduce the demand data centers place on the electrical grid and save companies money on power costs. Data centers’ ability to suck up inordinate amounts of electricity is turning them into the Hummers of the computing world. And much like Hummers, [...]
Politics in the Zeros (Free subscription) | 07/26/2008
Braving toxic fumes and oily, black water, 11 Greenpeace activists entered Syncrude’s Aurora tar sands operation, targeting the same two-kilometre wide tailings pond just north of Fort McMurray, Alberta, that made international headlines in March after 500 ducks landed on the pond and drowned in the sludge. Rockport Missouri: First 100% wind-powered US city. Data centers that [...]
Energy News Digest (Free subscription) | 07/28/2008
All the links in today’s news digest lead to current stories. Please note that some media organizations update their web sites regularly, which may result in broken links in the future. TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below) - FERC renews Cowlitz PUD's hydroelectric lease - Puget Sound Energy buys 125 megawatt Sumas natural gas-fired power plant - Chelan County PUD Power line repairs to top $1 million...
broadstuff (Free subscription) | 07/28/2008
Article in GigaOM about where datacentres will be built notes that Siberia is a useful area: Power is seen as the biggest constraint when it comes to building data center capacity. As a way around this conundrum, large consumers of Internet data center capacity have located their facilities closer to energy sources. For instance, Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo have built data centers in Quincy in the...
