HP has found a clever way to keep its data centre servers cold - site them in the north-east of England. The company's recently completed Wynyard data facility, which is conveniently located equidistant between Hartlepool and Sunderland, may be a PR disaster for the north-east region, but it's an "eco" win for HP - which claims it'll save millions every year from cheaper cooling costs thanks to the cold, windswept nature of Wynyard.According to PC World, the site is ideal thanks to the outside temperature in blustery Wynyard only rising above 24 degrees for around 20 hours a year, so the outside air simply has to be wafted in with some big fans. There's a backup air conditioning system to cover Wynyard's rare 20-hour heatwave.
PR disaster?
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Got to admire their thinking though. It is just a pity they have not put the same forward thinking into their desktop PC machines since the days of the 386 Vectra range.
It also reminds me of the story I relayed at the other ThreeSpeech site just under a year ago about Bill Hewlett & the pocket calculator inside his oversized shirt pocket...
"PSP shifts 50 million units worldwide" (13 February 2009)
[ http://threespeech.com/blog/2009/02/psp-shifts-50-million-units-worldwide/ ]
(#5 Comment by fanpages — Feb 14, 2009 @ 8:46 am)
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When I was an IT Manager I has my server room aircon pack up, the room hit 35 degrees in under an hour - only 10 servers or so, amazin
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