data centres
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Your Netflix Habit Probably Isn’t Harming The Environment
Remember those reports that said the use of streaming services was generating billions of tonnes of carbon dioxide a year? A new analysis of figures suggests that they might have been out of whack ” and not by a small proportion.
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Why This Company Wants To Build Data Centres Next To Gas Storage Sites
The problem with data centres is excess heat. The problem with liquified natural gas terminals is excess cold. In a perfect world, one problem would neatly cancel out the other — which is exactly the world imagined by Massachusetts-based TeraCool. Coupling data with liquified gas could make a lot of energy sense.
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Is The NSA’s Data Centre Melting Down Because It’s Spying Too Much?
This is embarrassingly funny. The WSJ reports that the NSA’s new Utah data centre has suffered 10 meltdowns in the past 13 months because of electrical surges. The NSA is basically using so much power in its spying efforts that it is poetically killing its data centres. Seriously, the surges have destroyed hundreds of thousands…
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IBM Uses Hacked Roombas To Hunt Down Overheating Data Centres
To ensure the cooling and ventilation systems in the company’s data centres are running at peak efficiency, IBM now employs autonomous temperature-monitoring robots built on the iRobot Create platform to hunt down problematic areas. Fitted with a 2m tall pole laden with temperature and other sensors, the robots wander collect data on temperature and humidity…