For one thing, there's disagreement over how much it should cost for the Capitol Power Plant--which provides heating and cooling power to Congress--to use cleaner-burning natural gas instead of coal power.
At the new Intercontinental Hotels resort at Bora Bora, air conditioning for its 80 villas on a pristine lagoon comes from a system of pipes extending 1.5 miles offshore and 3, 000 feet deep, tapping the cooling power of 41-degree seawater.
Today, it is more widely appreciated that by moving an application to the cloud, less people are needed to rack and stack technology, demand for servers decrease, the need for cooling and power generation decreases as well, to take three prominent examples of costs savings.
What this says is that the State of Wisconsin can sell or contract out management of state-owned heating, cooling and power plants without the requirement that bids for such a sale or leasing be solicited so as to maximize what the government can pocket through such an arrangement.
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In turn, that would reduce both power and cooling costs, not to mention simplify management and cut operating costs.
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And advances in power and cooling technologies help next-generation data centers maximize efficiency.
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An AP1000 is designed to continue cooling, without grid power or operator action.
When an organization can more effectively use its existing power and cooling systems, it delays the need for costly data center expansion.
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To respond to an event like this requires an abstraction of the application from the power and cooling infrastructure and the building itself.
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But because of power outages cooling systems failed, leading to fears of a meltdown and possible release of large amounts of radioactive material.
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The Zumwalt has the power, cooling, space and weight margin designed to meet the full spectrum of future threats, both known and unknown.
As one of America's greenest banks we plan to take full advantage of the additional capacity and advanced power and cooling capabilities unique to zEnterprise.
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In addition, the inherent benefits of the platform, including the helium fill, allow HGST to significantly improve datacenter TCO on virtually every level: capacity, power, cooling and storage density.
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While a software defined data center might allow you to move workloads across different IT components, how will you manage the power and cooling in the data center that is at risk?
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Utilizing a common de-dupe and compression architecture across your data center can enable your organization to use fewer network resources, reduce your storage footprint, and lower the power and cooling cost of storing your data.
If they can replace 100 to 200 Sun servers or x86 servers with two or three PURE systems they will have lower hardware costs, less to pay in software licensing, plus savings in the real estate, power and cooling.
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The opportunities for sustainable energy strategies are everywhere, beginning with the design of buildings, to construction processes, to insulation, the HVAC system, the lights, the water, the elevators, the power and cooling for technology, the heating and cooling for people.
It was offered tools to track utilization in servers, and typically found that several were no longer doing anything, but nobody knew for sure so they were left to run, with all the attendant power, cooling, real estate and software licensing costs.
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Some 110, 000 people living around the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant were evacuated after the massive March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami knocked out the plant's power and cooling systems, causing meltdowns in three reactors and spewing radiation into the surrounding air, soil and water.
To really squeeze your power consumption you need to be able to manage your data center like a video game, watching application usage, powering servers up and down, shifting load from one data center to another, reconfiguring racks and servers with power and cooling impact in mind.
The racks would rarely be nearing physical capacity, but might actually be maxed out in logical capacity due to power or cooling constraints at the rack level (the mantra to avoid creating hot spots in data centers has actually made floor and rack use a lot less efficient).
The good news for CIOs is that a growing amount of vendor investment has been drawn to this market, which Gartner has named Data Center Infrastructure Management. nlyte software, for example, provides a modeling, monitoring, and management suite for understanding power and cooling in a data center and optimizing placement and configuration of racks and servers.
Fully mature Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) software along with energy market integration that has a detailed model of power consumption, cooling, and the ability to manage servers, turning them on or off or putting them in a lower power state, completes the picture and enables the full benefit of a software defined data center to be realized.
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This reduction in power and associated cooling cost significantly contributes to the lower TCO of the helium-filled platform.
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Last month a power cut shut cooling systems for four spent fuel ponds.
In March, a power cut shut cooling systems for four spent fuel ponds.
If the cooling system were to lose power during the initial decay period of 24 to 48 hours, a meltdown would likely follow.
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Those operating reactors with lower risks of flooding or earthquake, better emergency cooling systems and more robust power supplies might see themselves as having little to learn from it.
This offers a compelling solution to the problem of physical data center space.(3) Each chassis shares traditional components including the fabric, HP Integrated Lights-Out (iLo) management, power supply and cooling fans.
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David Lochbaum, the director of the Union of Concerned Scientists' Nuclear Safety Program, during a conference call Monday, questioned the safety of U.S. nuclear plants that rely on batteries to back up the power supplies for cooling systems.
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