Comments on: Data Centers Will Follow the Sun and Chase the Wind

By: Google Gets Shifty With Its Data Center Operations

Google Gets Shifty With Its Data Center Operations — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:10:00 +0000

[...] wrote about a similar scenario last July, only I said data center operators would follow the sun with their workloads so they could use a [...]

By: Internet Evolution - Deborah Nason - The Net Takes Data Centers in New Directions

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 23:53:13 +0000

[...] the possibility of data centers in deserts, close to a power-generating windmill. According to a recent blog, Andrew Hopper, head of the Cambridge University Computing Lab, proposes placing a data center [...]

By: AISO

AISO — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 05:57:08 +0000

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By: Data Centers Will Follow the Sun and Chase the Wind at Combat Consulting

Data Centers Will Follow the Sun and Chase the Wind at Combat Consulting — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 16:30:16 +0000

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By: Eco data centres at diversity.net.nz

Eco data centres at diversity.net.nz — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:24:24 +0000

[...] post over here about plans to build data centres where good sources of renewable energy [...]

By: Russia, The Final Frontier For Data Centers? - GigaOM

Russia, The Final Frontier For Data Centers? - GigaOM — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 01:36:00 +0000

[...] required to cool a data center. Andrew Hopper, head of Cambridge University Computing Lab’s has been preaching the mantra of putting data centers next to power sources, since it takes [...]

By: Eideard

Eideard — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 18:50:33 +0000

Don’t forget hydro – which can provide cooling as well as electricity.

Here’s a piece I reported on 2 years ago – on a Google data center in rural Oregon based on hydropower and cooling:

http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=5724

By: John (Vertography)

John (Vertography) — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 05:34:38 +0000

Datacenters powered by renewable energy already exist. My green blog is already hosted at a datacenter 100% powered by solar energy. The folks at iMountain.com have a totally solar powered datacenter in Pomona, California.

By: Jay Hankins

Jay Hankins — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 01:09:20 +0000

Would a new kind of memory storage device help? I’ve read in a prospectus of a kind of new memory coming (Ovonic) large flash memory takes the place of hard drives thus no moving parts less heat so less energy required. If the speed of computing and associated problems can be solved with dual care chip
why not have 100 or 1000 wouldn’t they all run cooler
better ywt build a bew chip like OVONIC has and while your at it an open source operating system and a hugh memory call it infinity so large no one know how much it can hold and if it ever does fill up we will just dual core that flash memory. no moving pats is the key and it can’t run hot either.

By: Data Centers That Will Follow the Sun and Chase the Wind - GigaOM

Data Centers That Will Follow the Sun and Chase the Wind - GigaOM — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 22:08:10 +0000

[...] Stacey Higginbotham, Friday, July 25, 2008 at 3:08 PM PT Comments (0) 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, their power-guzzling ways means they are becoming increasingly costly to run. To read about the plan being worked on by Andrew Hopper, head of the Cambridge University Computing Lab, head over to Earth2Tech. [...]