Comments on: Data Centers That Will Follow the Sun and Chase the Wind http://gigaom.com/2008/07/25/data-centers-that-will-follow-the-sun-and-chase-the-wind/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:52:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: David H. Deans http://gigaom.com/2008/07/25/data-centers-that-will-follow-the-sun-and-chase-the-wind/#comment-208103 Sun, 27 Jul 2008 20:45:36 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=15561#comment-208103 The Cambridge University Computing Lab project in West Texas sounds promising.

That said, I recall reading that Microsoft is building a traditional style data center that will consume huge amounts of city power and water (for cooling) in the suburbs of San Antonio, Texas.

The Microsoft facility is in excess of 500,000 square feet, and they’re building a similar facility — with the same type of demands on local resources — in the suburbs of Chicago.

Apparently, meaningful progress with “green” data centers is slow to materialize. Companies are still “talking” about their energy efficiency policies while continuing to build these Hummer-like monstrosities.

]]> By: max http://gigaom.com/2008/07/25/data-centers-that-will-follow-the-sun-and-chase-the-wind/#comment-208102 Sun, 27 Jul 2008 01:35:38 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=15561#comment-208102 i guess data centers that follow the sun/wind makes sense in high level theory but how about simple conservation instead like less logging in? including myself… :-)

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