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:Been there, done that

[Torfbolt]

... uninterpretable power supply ...

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