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Article: Cost to cool key to attracting, maintaining data centers
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- Colorado Springs Business Journal
- Article date:
- August 1, 2008
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Data centers need massive quantities of electricity not only to
run servers, but also to cool them -- and as electricity costs
increase, companies are seeking efficiencies in every conceivable
area.
Manufacturers such as Dell and Hewlett Packard are marketing
servers that, they claim, require less cooling and use less power.
Existing data centers are employing strategies such as using off-
peak power to freeze water, and then blowing air over the ice during
the day to cool servers.
Local climate also is a consideration, with previously far-
fetched schemes to reduce cooling costs by building data centers in
Iceland or aboard ships now receiving serious consideration.
However, local ...