Intel Testing Solar Power For Data Centers

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday January 20, 2009 @09:16AM from the something-green-in-the-desert dept.

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."

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How is this news? by Gothmolly · 2009-01-20 11:35 · Score: 0, Troll

Solar energy can be converted to electricity. Film at 11.
because Intel is doing it at a "data center"?
Why do we care?

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