Stanford Gets First Sun Blackbox

miller60 writes "The Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) will be the first end-user to get a Project Blackbox portable data center from Sun Microsystems. The 20-foot shipping container (which will be white, not black) will sit on a concrete pad behind the computer building with hookups to power, a 10-gigabit network connection and a chiller located on an adjacent pad. The 'data center in a box' will allow the SLAC to expand its computing capacity even though its existing data center has maxed out its power and cooling."

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Re:Um OK, but black?

[SpzToid]

Please clarify for me what you mean, because I'm not understanding.

All I see is a dark/black box sitting in the sun. Sure it still needs cooling, from somewhere which is clear, but still it's a black box sitting in the sun all day. In my experience, such dark boxes collect heat, and mylar or some reflective coating might be used to save what are surely considerable cooling costs from the sun alone. Seemingly, black doesn't seem to be the optimal color for the job.