2011: The Year Data Centers Turned Green

[soybean]

I realize this is a completely different realm from my and your personal computing but it may be a topic of interest to you: 2011: The Year Data Centers Turned Green

[truenorth]

Very interesting article. Not to be disparaging but probably a great deal of the motivation for these projects was economy (not a bad thing). However if we are to really take the issue of the planet's future abilities to sustain life (particularly of the human variety) seriously a much greater emphasis will need to be applied to climate change. Personally i had always wanted "waterfront property" and the way things are going i may soon get it without moving.truenorth

[rthompson80819]

Years ago, when "data centers" were a few racks of servers, nobody worried about energy costs.  Now that data centers can take up hundreds of racks (sometimes over a thousand), energy costs can be astronomical.  Not to take away from anybodies desire to go green, but cost is a big factor.