Data Center
Data centers, Emergency Power and Crowdsourcing
Data Centers are helping to deliver emergency power to the power grid with the use of a crowdsourcing business model. A very specific element of an electrical power grid is that there is no storage. Therefore demand and supply must be the same, in equilibrium, else there is the risk that this power grid shuts […]
Cloud Computing Contracts and geolocation
As very well explained in the paper on negotiating cloud contracts by Stanford Technology Law Review (see also the blog Cloud Computing Contracts) cloud computing users can “have regulatory or other legal obligations and may need to demonstrate compliance to regulators”. Data location and data and data transfers are one of the most important data protection […]
The 6th International Datacentre Awards 2013
The annual international Datacentre Awards have been announced by the Judges Panel for the 2013 gala ceremony, which takes place in June in London. And as one of the members of the Judges panel I’m looking forward to judging nominations for these awards. The organizers of the event, Broadgroup, have announced an extended panel of expert Judges […]
Connect the data center directly to the power grid
Are there with a diminishing PUE still opportunities to improve the energy efficiency of data centers? The answer is yes if you take a different look at energy efficiency. At the DatacenterDynamics Amsterdam 2012 conference there was a (thought) provoking presentation of Siemens. According to the presenter of Siemens you must take the whole energy […]
Data centers and power grid transformation
Data centers, know your power grid As we all know the quality and availability of the data center stands or falls with the quality and availability of the power supply to the data center. So data centers are very much depending on the quality and capacity of the power grid, for their daily operations as […]
Another vulnerable power grid
Another power grid in the news. After Japan, India and Texas we have Belgium. Belgium’s nuclear regulator has questioned the safety of the Electrabel-operated Doel 3 reactor, located 25 kilometres (20 miles) north of Antwerp, due to cracks in the pressure vessels. Hence the decision to close the Doel 3 reactor and also a second reactor […]
Data centers and the vulnerable Texas power grid
As we all know the quality and availability of the data center stands or falls with the quality and availability of the power supply to the data center. But in Texas, a state with data centers of several notable IT companies, including WordPress.Com, Cisco, Rackspace and Host Gator, the power grid is on the edge […]
European Union Carbon price and data centers
Carbon based energy can lead to considerable extra costs for a data center in the European Union. Since 2005 the carbon price in the EU has moved between the 32.85 and 5.99 euro a ton. Currently there is much uncertainty about the future of the carbon price in the EU. To enforce the right actions […]
Data centers beware of the Power Grid
As we all know the quality and availability of the data center stands or falls with the quality and availability of the power delivered by the power grid to the data center. But the current power grid is under pressure. Although suitable for the last century, the current power grid cannot handle the new demands. […]
Data Centers in Europe 2012 awards announced
Last night, 13 june 2012, the winners of the Datacentres Europe Awards 2012 were announced at the prestigious Merchant Taylors Hall in London. The 5th annual Data Centres in Europe Awards took place in London last night, presided over by the chairman of the Judges Panel, Ashley Davis, and showcased achievement and growth in the […]
