http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2008/10/20/microsoft-pue-of-122-for-data-center-containers/ News and analysis about data centers, cloud computing, managed hosting and disaster recovery Tue, 14 Feb 2012 04:07:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2008/10/20/microsoft-pue-of-122-for-data-center-containers/comment-page-1/#comment-56451 Energy efficient university data centres in Australia - Education - Site Home - MSDN Blogs Mon, 25 Jul 2011 22:43:25 +0000 http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/?p=4019#comment-56451 [...] However, some of the things that have been learnt could be of use to you, and help you to reduce your carbon emissions and running costs – like making a trade-off in processor performance to achieve the most efficient Performance per Watt per dollar (which is one reflection of the true cost of providing a server service). We’ve also made adjustments to the temperature servers are cooled to – and switching to using more free air cooling to replace air conditioning. And we’ve even experimented by operating servers outside under a tent. The Microsoft data centres were quoted as already hitting a PUE of 1.22 in 2008. [...] [...] However, some of the things that have been learnt could be of use to you, and help you to reduce your carbon emissions and running costs – like making a trade-off in processor performance to achieve the most efficient Performance per Watt per dollar (which is one reflection of the true cost of providing a server service). We’ve also made adjustments to the temperature servers are cooled to – and switching to using more free air cooling to replace air conditioning. And we’ve even experimented by operating servers outside under a tent. The Microsoft data centres were quoted as already hitting a PUE of 1.22 in 2008. [...]

]]> http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2008/10/20/microsoft-pue-of-122-for-data-center-containers/comment-page-1/#comment-1302 Microsoft Chicago Data Center Launches « The Digital Cave Mon, 20 Oct 2008 17:45:58 +0000 http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/?p=4019#comment-1302 [...] 20, 2008 Microsoft has officially launched it Chicago Data Center.  The story broke by Data Center knowledge and referencing Microsoft’s Mike Manos blog entry goes into some detail on the massive  [...] [...] 20, 2008 Microsoft has officially launched it Chicago Data Center.  The story broke by Data Center knowledge and referencing Microsoft’s Mike Manos blog entry goes into some detail on the massive  [...]

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