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From Lauraibm

Full article: Holistically (including economics and environment), Moore’s Law could be failing (14-Aug-07)

Datacenter layouts? Taylor says that the average data centre uses three times the amount of cooling than it actually needs because it’s laid out with aesthetics in mind, rather than energy efficiency.

IDC’s storage systems VP asks if part of the problem isn’t the sales person for EMC (or HP) who is looking to close the next sale, driving more gear into the data centres and simply propagating the problem.

Are data centres too cold? An HP rep points out that most data centres are kept at around 60 degrees which is much colder than those data centres need to be given the specs to which servers are built (he claims 68 to 72 degrees is more appropriate). But on the flip side, he acknowledges that many data centre managers see the 60 degree level as buying them some time in the event that there’s some failure that knocks the cooling facilities out (rather than living on the edge where, if the cooling fails, system failure or shutdown closely follows).