Server Farms

Computing

Here’s Facebook’s Massive Arctic Server Farm

6:30AM October 29, 2011 | Sam Biddle

What do you get when you spend over $US700 million on a new Swedish party house for your servers? This. 91,440m of buzzing, scalding Facebook servers in a spot so cold, they can just let the air in. More »


Gadgets

Google Patents Floating Server Farm Powered By OCEAN WAVES

11:00AM September 9, 2008 | Adrian Covert

Who in the hell do Google think they are? The goddamn Dharma Initiative? Slashdot readers dug up this 2007 patent for a server farm system, which uses wave power buoys to run a bunch of machines on the boat they’re attached to. Though somewhat similar to one of the stations on LOST, this patent’s purpose is much less alluring, even if it has a cooling system that uses sea water. I mean, hosting a bunch of binary data crunchers isn’t nearly as cool as a station used for discharging electromagnetic buildup, or time travel or a zoo. But hey, you gotta start somewhere, right? [SlashDot via Technovelgy via The Earth Times via EcoGeek]

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