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Greenmonk’s Inaugural Cool Award: Fujitsu Siemens

by monkchips on September 25, 2008 · 1 comment

in hardware

A couple of months ago I got the chance to chat with Fujitsu Siemens Computer’s chief technology officer (CTO), Dr Joseph Reger, who leads the company’s sustainability initiatives. We went over a fair amount of ground, but one thing that stuck with me was a new technology that came to the market last month – [...]

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Data centers as energy exporters, not energy sinks!

by Tom Raftery on July 15, 2008 · 4 comments

in datacenter

Photo Credit alexmuse
I have been asking a question of various manufacturers recently and not getting a satisfactory answer.
The question I was asking was why don’t we make heat tolerant servers. My thinking being that if we had servers capable of working in temperatures of 40C then data centers wouldn’t expend as much energy trying to [...]

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