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April 29, 2008

links for 2008-04-29

• Fortune on the future of computing: Behold the server farm - Jul. 27, 2006
  "A colleague tries to explain why the site they're visiting on this hot May afternoon might work: It's big enough to accommodate a 750,000-square-foot complex - equivalent to seven Costco stores and three times the size of the megacenter Equinix is buildi
  (tags: datacenters environment suburban suburbanlandscapes)
• Troubles crop up for server farms / Energy crunch and dot-com bomb wreak havoc on Web-site warehouses
  "Exodus' Bay Area operations consume 12 megawatts of electricity -- as much as 12,000 houses. And data farms typically rely on diesel backup generators in case of a blackout, which generate more pollution than most power plants."
  (tags: environment datacenters suburbanlandscapes)

Posted by egoodman at April 29, 2008 4:46 PM

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