PG&E on data centre cooling..

Thu Mar 29 22:59:08 UTC 2007

Wonder if they visited Equinix in South San Jose... There ain't no
light in that place... But, i still think it's one of the better ones
that I have been in.

-Mike

On 3/29/07, Jonathan Lassoff <jof at thejof.com> wrote:
>
> From the article: "San Francisco-based 365 Main has ... installed
> lighting controls that automatically turn off lights..."
>
> That's funny, I've never really noticed.
> I've worked out of 365 for a while now at all hours of the day, and
> it's still the brightest facility that I've ever been too. It always
> seemed folly to me that they had fairly bright fluorescent lights over
> all of the datacenter floor, even when nobody has badged in, when they
> don't even have cameras covering a majority of every colocation room.
> It's a very nice facility, but you certainly pay for it, and they have
> some of the more wasteful operating practices that I've seen.
>
> -j
>
> On 3/29/07, Alexander Harrowell <a.harrowell at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9014674&source=rss_news50
> >
>
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