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Amazon’s expanded its server footprint for a second time just over a month, this time opening a data center serving customers in South America.
The cloud pioneer that everybody’s now racing to catch has opened its first South American Region facility with a server farm running in São Paulo, Brazil’s capital.
Using Waste Heat from the Data Center
Cisco Efficiency Assurance Program
Cisco Data Center Blog
January 4, 2010
By Dave Trowbridge
A perfect storm is converging on data centers worldwide. Like any hurricane, it’s driven by heat energy: in this case the waste heat from ever-denser racks of blade servers. Every watt of IT power can require as much as 2.5 watts for cooling, and the combined business and environmental impact of the energy needed is driving interest in the green data center.