24 hour airco is pretty destructive on the energy bill for these datacenters apparently, but looking at the outside temperature, it might not be needed all the time.
No matter what the temperature outside, without the aircon we have about a half hour before we have to start shutting kit down. Any longer than that and the temperature gets high enough to start causing damage to disks and other components.
Sounds good in theory, however I doubt that either the environment agencies or the local residents would support this. In the case of Wind Turbines we'd be hit by a sudden fit of NIMBY. As for solar panels, well some of the new buildings here have been designed with grass roofs in order to make them blend in with the environment. Again, I doubt we'd get permission to start decking the roofs with solar panels.
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24 hour airco is pretty destructive on the energy bill for these datacenters apparently, but looking at the outside temperature, it might not be needed all the time.
No matter what the temperature outside, without the aircon we have about a half hour before we have to start shutting kit down. Any longer than that and the temperature gets high enough to start causing damage to disks and other components.
(I work at the Sanger Institute)
Sounds good in theory, however I doubt that either the environment agencies or the local residents would support this. In the case of Wind Turbines we'd be hit by a sudden fit of NIMBY. As for solar panels, well some of the new buildings here have been designed with grass roofs in order to make them blend in with the environment. Again, I doubt we'd get permission to start decking the roofs with solar panels.
(I work at the Sanger Institute)
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