Intel Testing Solar Power For Data Centers

miller60 writes "Intel has installed solar panels at a New Mexico facility to test the potential for using photovoltaic solar power in data centers. Solar has proven impractical in data centers thus far for reasons of cost (too high) and capacity (too low). Intel will test the 10-KW solar array with data center containers and as supplemental power for summer capacity challenges, and says the project is a first step toward solar data centers. The project is housed at the New Mexico site of Intel's recent research in air side economizers in data center cooling."

Comments

Who would have thought it?

[zappepcs]

I would never think that Intel would leave data center power research to Sun? You'd think they would do their own research?

Re:Earth's rotation instead

[fuzzyfuzzyfungus]

I proposed that; but you wouldn't believe the whining I had to put up with. An entire bloody hemisphere: "But Mr. fuzzyfuzzyfungus, we don't want to be plunged into eternal darkness and subfreezing temperatures..."

Spoiled, the whole lot of them. Why, in my day, we had to chip away the ice with our teeth, provide light for our crops by burning our children, and by god we liked it!

Re:Been there, done that

[Torfbolt]

... uninterpretable power supply ...

Yeah, those things sure are hard to understand sometimes...

Re:Core 2 Duo Thermal is the answer

[CheeseTroll]

when I peek into a pipe leading from a geothermal well I get scalded by steam

Caution: Do not look into geothermal pipe with remaining face.