What's ridiculous is that many of these office buildings don't allow a window to be opened.
We had a room of about 150 computers in racks and couldn't open a window in winter. Instead we had to run portable air conditioners to cool the room. So it was 90 inside, 20 outside and we couldn't just open the window to expel the heat. --- Ted Roche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7/25/07, Michael Madigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > That's a good point. A lightbulb is almost > equivelent > > to an electric heater. Want a 1500 heater? Turn > on > > 15 100-watt lightbulbs. > > > > Or 5 PCs with 300- watt power supplies. Yup. A > watt's a watt. > > Sun's CEO was writing in his blog recently about the > limitations their > biggest customers were having with their > datacenters, and that the > problem could be seen from 1000 feet above the data > center building. > > Air conditioning. > > The roofs were full. There was no more room to add > airconditioning to > disperse all the heat. So, low-power CPUs and better > power management > can lead to more processing per watt. > > -- > Ted Roche > Ted Roche & Associates, LLC > http://www.tedroche.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Post Messages to: [email protected] > Subscription Maintenance: > http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox > OT-free version of this list: > http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech > Searchable Archive: > http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox > This message: > http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, > are the opinions of the author, and do not > constitute legal or medical advice. This statement > is added to the messages for those lawyers who are > too stupid to see the obvious. > _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
