Mark Monroe is Sun Microsystems‘ Director of Sustainable Computing. I had a chat with him the other day about Sun’s thinking around Green IT.
We discussed Sun’s new Santa Clara data center, their pod architecture and their Project Black Box among other things!
Mark had some interesting numbers to share, including the fact that in their Santa Clara data center, they reduced the size of the data center from 202,000 square feet to 76,000 square feet and the number of racks was dropped from 550 to 65 while reducing thier power requirement and increasing the compute capacity!
Towards the end Mark referred to two links on the sun site for further information, they were sun.com/blueprints and sun.com/ecoinnovations.
[…] significant changes this week at The Green Grid. Mark Monroe, a Sun veteran and a Center for ReSource Conservation board member, will be taking over as Executive Director […]