Greening the data center

Summary: John O'Brien, CTO of Dataupia, explains how carbon footprints are calculated in the data center and discusses ways to tame these power-hungry machines.

November 27, 2007 -- 09:12 GMT (01:12 PST)

Topics: Hardware, Data Centers, Storage

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correction

Power and cooling are not independent variables The graph should be 2d not 3d as only 2 independent variables are used basically the unit should have a system envelope drawn so the energy cooling is an adiabatic system for balancing energy equations.

Altotus

4 April, 2008 16:02

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