We’ve previously noted the use of seismic isolation technology from WorkSafe Technologies to
earthquake-proof data centers [1] for Boeing and customers in Japan. The company’s gear was recently installed in a new data center facility for the city Bellevue, Washington, and Dylan Mason of WorkSafe provided a demonstration of the ISO-Base platforms, which sit under the data center racks and allow them to shift independent of the building during an earthquake, reducing damage. This video runs about 2 minutes, 20 seconds.
For additional video, visit our
DCK video archive [2] and the
Data Center Videos [3]channel on YouTube.
Rich Miller is the founder and editor-in-chief of Data Center Knowledge, and has been reporting on the data center sector since 2000. He has tracked the growing impact of high-density computing on the power and cooling of data centers, and the resulting push for improved energy efficiency in these facilities.
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[1] earthquake-proof data centers: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2007/07/17/earthquake-proofing-the-data-center/
[2] DCK video archive: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/data_center_videos-index.html
[3] Data Center Videos : http://www.youtube.com/user/DataCenterVideos
[4] Rich Miller: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/author/richm/
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