Ran across this article today which lead me to this article from IBM, and thought it was interesting and innovative enough to rant about. It is from a site called 'GreenerComputing'. As a person who is pretty familiar with a smaller data center and the amount of heat that gets produced, coupled with my desire to use alternative forms of energy (I would love to have wind turbine in my back yard), I thought this was pretty cool. The innovation is intriguing and I am sure that even on smaller scales you could do similar projects. Here is a quick example of how much heat gets generated from a small data-center. A few years ago, we had a data center that was comprised of a mid-size phone switch, and about 6 servers. Occasionally the 'chiller' would stop working and the room would start to heat up. Once, this happened on the weekend and nobody was around to respond to it. One of our team members happened to stop in and heard the alarm going off. The room had heated up to about 125 degrees and as soon as he opened the door, it instantly fogged up his glasses (this was before the days when servers would shut themselves off when they got too warm). Needless to say we installed a remote monitoring system that called our phones when the temp got to warm. Imagine what you could do with the heat that is being wasted by larger data centers????
Anyway - Enjoy!!
2 comments:
You like gagets don't you? How big are these things and can you order them on line to come by UPS? It would be cool to cool down those server rooms. Sounds like you're a guy that knows what he's talking about.
I've heard of buildings using body heat to heat buildings, but this takes the cake. Great idea for sure.
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