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A Server Farm Powered By a Wind Farm

Posted by timothy on from the nice-and-symmetrical dept.

1sockchuck writes "A Texas startup called Baryonyx plans to build data centers powered entirely by renewable energy. Its first project will be a wind-powered server farm powered by 100 wind turbines in the Texas panhandle. The company has also leased 38,000 acres in the Gulf of Mexico, where it hopes to build hundreds of 300-foot wind turbines that can each generate up to 5 megawatts of power to support additional facilities. Baryonyx plans to sell excess capacity to the local utility, which it will use as a backup when the wind dies down."

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  1. Car powered by a wind farm. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I've built a car that runs on a wind farm. Only problem is that it only works in the water. 100% green though!

    1. Re:Car powered by a wind farm. by K.+S.+Kyosuke · · Score: 3, Funny

      But does it run Wind River Linux?

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  2. Umm... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    *Hundreds* of 300ft wind farms to power a data center? Holy sustainability problems Batman!

    1. Re:Umm... by HalifaxRage · · Score: 4, Funny

      You know I could have sworn someone was trying to sell a few hundred giant turbines here a few days back...

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  3. One small technical hurdle by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    The current version has coal-fired blowers feeding into the wind farm.

    Future versions promise to remove the coal-fired blowers.

  4. all you need now is spice... by MoFoQ · · Score: 1, Funny

    dunno about the rest of ya but for me...every time I hear wind power generation, it reminds me of Dune....specifically, the Dune PC games...where the main source of power were these wind turbines.

    (yea, the old DOS based game...Dune II...man...classic...)

    but dang...300ft turbines? imagine the number of migratory birds, insects (notably monarch butterflies from mexico), and numerous PETA/Greenpeace boats would be destroyed....
    I guess the downside is just the animals that would be sacrificed for the greater good.
    c'est la vie

  5. Re:Why not just use the grid? by aldousd666 · · Score: 3, Funny

    They'll have to invent a new HTTP error code: 603 - Calm Weather

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