Infographic: Nine most unusual data centers in the world – take a graphic tour of data centers that are out of the ordinary because of siting (an abandoned nuclear bunker, a WWII anti-aircraft platform, inside a mountain), portability (using shipping containers), cooling methods (one uses the entire lower floor …
Old Gas Tower to Become Futuristic Data Center – Swedish internet service provider Bahnhof and it’s CEO Jon Karlung are planning to transform this 1893 gas tower, the Stockholm Gasometer, into a state-of-the-art data center. Bahnhof is known for its unusual data center design as in the ‘James Bond Villain’ data …
Two from Data Center Knowledge: The Evolution of Facebook’s Data Center Cooling (Dec 4, 2012) – Facebook is making changes in a phase of its fresh air cooling system that manages humidity and heat removal. In the first building of its data center campus in North Carolina, Facebook used …
Microsoft Recycles Waste to Provide Clean Power for Data Center R&D – from Microsoft’s Global Foundations Services Blog: Microsoft is excited to announce its research and development of the first zero carbon data center – called the Data Plant – that will be completely independent of the grid and will …
A healthy grant to support healthy buildings | Official Google Blog – Google recently gave $3 million to the USGBC to support research into green building materials, especially in the workplace. Read more about it on BuildingGreen: In one of the biggest announcements to come out of Greenbuild 2012 in …
If you’re like me, you’ve always wondered how all that data gets to your screen. Now we get to see what Google’s eight data centers look like on their Google Data centers page. Here’s an overview with a selection of Connie Zhou’s great photos, Peek inside Google’s data centers …