Intel has provided some really interesting video tours of its data centers. Last year we highlighted a tour of a former silicon chip fabrication facility that Intel converted into a
high-density data center [1]. Today we present a video tour of a two-story “greenfield” (new construction) data center featuring a highly efficient design. Intel data center manager Neal Smith walks us through some the facility, which houses 220 racks of gear and is managed remotely, with only a security guard on site. The equipment area features a fully-contained hot aisle and cabinets of blade servers with power densities of 13kW to 16kW per cabinet. This video runs about 5 minutes, 30 seconds.
For additional video, check out 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] high-density data center: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2008/09/26/data-center-tour-intels-high-density-retrofit/
[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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