Tag Archive | Nano data centers
Data centers, reducing energy usage by heating and distribution
In delivering computer process power and storage capacity there are apparently two opposite approaches, the cloud computing mega data center “bigger is better” and the local nano data center “small is beautiful”. The current “bigger is better” model of cloud computing leads, although shifted from customer to supplier, still to enormous capital expenditures, problems in [...]
Datacenters, big is ugly?
In the book “The Big Switch” Nicholas Carr makes a historical analysis to build the idea that the data centers/ Internet is following the same developmental path as electric power did 100 years ago. At that time companies stopped generating their own power and plugged into the newly built electric grid that was fed with [...]
Beyond the clouds: Nano Data Centers
To sell and/or explain the concept of Cloud Computing, the rise of Cloud Computing is much compared with the history of industrial power supply. By the end of the nineteenth century, (geographically) restrictive and inflexible direct connection of manufacturing machines to local power plants such as waterwheels, windmills, and steam engines gave way to electrically [...]
