With its growing information technology and telecom industries and its emerging status as a supercomputer power, China continues to expand its data center capacity. In an effort to help reduce carbon emissions, the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has started working with China to improve the energy performance of its data centers. The project … [Read more...]
Silicon Valley’s Newest (Freezing Cold) secret Data Center
Equinix, one of the biggest data center hosting companies, recently spent $103 million on the first phase of a brand new data center inside a vast warehouse building in San Jose, Calif. The data center will eventually be the host for the computer servers of hundreds of startups. The location will serve a wide array of companies: telecommunications firms, web sites, mobility … [Read more...]
AFCEA Cuts Data Center Power and Cooling Costs in Half
The Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA International) has reduced its physical and carbon footprint by transitioning its data center infrastructure into a virtualized environment. The consolidation cut AFCEA’s data center from 12 servers to two principal servers and two backup servers. The streamlined operations reduced both energy consumption and … [Read more...]
Temperature/Humidity Sensor Helps Protect Telecom Electronics
Temperature@lert recently released its latest sensor offering, a probe that monitors both temperature and humidity in one small device. When Google or Microsoft or IBM put in a new data center, environmental monitoring is a significant piece of the enterprise security and monitoring system incorporated into the facility. By monitoring environmental conditions such as … [Read more...]
Nanofluid Tapped to Cool Servers
Scientists at Sweden's Institute of Technology have developed a nanofluid solution that could eventually be used to cool massive data centers and server farms. Researcher Mamoun Muhammed told CNN that his team had experimented with various nanoparticles, but the ones currently showing the most potential are oxides of metals such as zinc and copper. However, carbon nanotubes are … [Read more...]
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