Microsoft Innovates Tent Data Centers

1sockchuck writes "The outside-the-box thinking in data center design continues. Microsoft has tested running a rack of servers in a tent outside one of its data centers. In seven months of testing, a small group of servers ran for seven months without failures, even when water dripped on the rack. The experiment builds on Intel's recent research on air-side economizers in suggesting that servers may be sturdier than believed, leaving more room to save energy by optimizing cooling set points and other key environmental settings in the server room."

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Innovation?

[wardk]

nice new abuse of the word.

I guess when Microsoft facilities people decide to change brands of Toilet paper it's called "innovating taking a dump"

Co3k

[Anonymous Coward]

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[twitter]

Bill Gates did not steal this idea from Apple. Prisons have been using tents as a way to ease overcrowding for decades.

Liberate your PC today with GNU/Linux.