Over the next year, within each issue, I will be addressing the six steps required to getting to a total cost of ownership (TCO) when building or se-lecting a new data center.
As we noted in the last issue, many data center owners and operators have concluded that both our power generation and transmission capacities in the U.S. are so overburdened that we need to consider alternative and renewable sources of energy in order to meet the exponential demand of our IT facilities.
Trillium Solutions Group and CBRE Group have recently teamed as part of CBRE's multi-partner Solutions Platform to provide technology transition services.
No folks, I am not a heretic. But the continuing evolution of technology begs the question of whether the IT-facilities divide of the past will simply disappear.
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.