Intel Experimenting With Solar-Powered Datacenter
Intel Experimenting With Solar-Powered Datacenter
Posted 01/21/2009 at 2:02pm
| by Andy Salisbury
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Intel has admittedly been mighty progressive when it comes to their energy conservation efforts. In the past few years, they’ve devoted a few million dollars from their annual budget to research the energy efficiency, and they’ve been making some pretty significant strides. Their latest look into renewable energy comes from the top of their datacenters in New Mexico, where they’ve put 10-kilowatt photovoltaic installations in an experiment aimed at finding out more about the possibilities of solar power.
This isn’t their first dive into the energy conservation pool, either. Just last year the California based chip-maker opened an installation in Oregon that produced 100 kilowatts of power. And Intel wasn’t even using this juice; instead they integrated it with Portland’s General Electric grid.
While there are some clear issues as to why solar might not work well with running servers (that have to be on 24 hours a day), it is commendable that Intel is looking to take a big step forward in this arena.
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Keith E. Whisman
January 21, 2009 at 3:19pm
It's funny that intel is trying to appear that it's here to help the world. During the chip manufacturing process many different toxic chemicals are used and disposed of. Yeah I'm sure they dispose of these chemicals properly like in a river that leads to Lake Springfield. There was a chip maker that recently got into hot water for high levels of toxicity in the local drinking water and the city uncovered it was the chip makers process of doing away with the chemicals. So yeah lets all feel good and save the world. We just need to love one another... yuck...
PCIV
January 21, 2009 at 2:40pm
Even if it doesn't work well with nighttime, the daytime would work well. As well, that makes a backup generator of sorts, on top of providing electricity that I'm assuming is less spiky than the electricity we get.
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