PG&E on data centre cooling..

Sun Apr 1 02:31:53 UTC 2007

John Kinsella wrote:

> I sorta wonder why the default is lights on, actually...I used to always
> love walking into dark datacenters and seeing the banks of GSRs (always
> thought they had good Blink) and friends happily blinking away. 

Consider the power consumption per square foot of the gear in a typical 
data center, then add in the power needed to keep it cool.  I suspect 
that the cost of energy to keep the lights on will be down in the noise.

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