Comments on: Google’s Chiller-less Data Center

By: Surge 2011 « mikhail panchenko / blog

Surge 2011 « mikhail panchenko / blog — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 01:17:07 +0000

[...] Google has also been doing clever things with datacenters. A good, albeit dated, example can be fond here [...]

By: John Austin

John Austin — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 01:31:10 +0000

A less extreme version of follow the moon would be follow the calendar …
Shift the workload between northern and southern hemispheres. Select the one experiencing winter. You could also move workload to an area with active wind generation. If the wind dies down, move the workload.

By: Datacenter temperature and server failures | Giovanni Tirloni

Datacenter temperature and server failures | Giovanni Tirloni — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 23:58:16 +0000

[...] external “free cooling” since the outside is already very cold. You can read about that here and here. The problem here in Brazil is that the outside environment is constantly above 30C [...]

By: Martin

Martin — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 20:44:52 +0000

The maximum temperature in Brussels during summer reaches maybe 71 degrees!!

By: Dancing in the Clouds / blog.waisman.info

Dancing in the Clouds / blog.waisman.info — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 19:39:40 +0000

[...] of all, keeping a datacenter cool 24 HS isn’t an easy [...]

By: Can you learn anything from Google or Facebook Data Centers ?

Can you learn anything from Google or Facebook Data Centers ? — Sun, 08 May 2011 13:40:46 +0000

[...] Chillerless Data Centre Google talk about their data center that has no cooling. They turn it off when it gets too hot. (Clever, eh?) [...]

By: David Mataró» Blog Archive » Google segueix innovant en el Datacenter

David Mataró» Blog Archive » Google segueix innovant en el Datacenter — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 11:40:45 +0000

[...] segueix innovant en el Datacenter Llegeixo a Data Center Knowledge que Google a comançat a operar un Datacenter a Belgica que no disposa d’equips de [...]

By: Google’s Chiller-less Data Centre | External Brain

Google’s Chiller-less Data Centre | External Brain — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 23:01:53 +0000

[...] has begun operating a data centre in Belgium that has no chillers to support its cooling systems, a strategy that will improve its energy efficiency while making local weather forecasting a larger [...]

By: PowerSource » Blog Archive » Google’s compute cycles could go to the lowest energy bidder

Thu, 27 May 2010 17:05:17 +0000

[...] Here’s an article that describes Google elimination of chillers in its data center in Belgium. The facility relies entirely on free air cooling. The maximum temperature in Brussels during summer reaches maybe 71 degrees, while Google maintains its data centers at temperatures above 80 degrees, so the same scenario wouldn’t work in, say, Dallas. But what happens when Belgium has a scorcher and it zooms up to the 70s? Google shuts down the center and shifts the workload elsewhere in its global network. [...]

By: 145 – Follow the Moon | Dogear Nation » Podcast

145 – Follow the Moon | Dogear Nation » Podcast — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 07:56:22 +0000

[...] Microsoft & Open Source lx5 quick messaging phones and cloud services billsweeney1 Google’s chillerless data center — follow the moon enabler [...]