The fallout from the Sunday September 23rd NY Times front page article entitled “Power, Pollution and the Internet” which was purported as an “investigative reporting” piece has begun to spread.
For the past several years, as if in a recurring nightmare, it has occurred to me that the real root cause of data center inefficiency and the solution to that problem lies in creating and utilizing computer servers with the lowest power consumption
As I write this it is early July, as we are about to move into the dog days of summer, anticipating the usual issues that seem to appear when cooling systems are pushed to their limits—and sometimes beyond.
Schneider Electric developed this 12-page white paper which describes a standardized method for classifying data center loads for efficiency calculations.
It is the end of June in Forrest City, North Carolina, a small town located only 10 miles from the border of South Carolina, an area known for its high heat and humidity during the summer.