Arctic Datacenters
October 11th, 2006 by Lou
In The Death of Yesterday’s Datacenter, Jonathan Schwartz discusses the future datacenter, or lack thereof as we build them now.
I’m reminded of one customer’s metric for a well designed and run datacenter. It’s the count of how many times you go into it. Zero is a good answer.
I’m also reminded of a humorous video we saw at CEC this year. It tells the story of a fictitious customer putting their datacenter in the arctic to deal with enormous heat, space and cooling issues, all caused by our competitors’ wasteful machines, of course. I think the irony is the future of datacenters is closer to this than we think.
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