Down on the server farm.

This article reports on the use of server farms to hold data centres for industry computing. As of 2008, data centres are housing increasing numbers of machines and requiring more power to run. The article discusses energy consumption for companies such as Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft, as well as t...

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Publicado en:Economist Vol. 387; no. 8581; pp. 83 - 85
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Economist Newspaper Limited 5/24/2008
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Sumario:This article reports on the use of server farms to hold data centres for industry computing. As of 2008, data centres are housing increasing numbers of machines and requiring more power to run. The article discusses energy consumption for companies such as Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft, as well as the use of remote locations for their facilities. Information is also provided on data centres for the companies Microsoft and Yahoo! in Quincy, Washington.