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Submission + - Nissan Electric Car Batteries Get Second Life (datacenterdynamics.com)

Submitted by judgecorp
judgecorp writes: Nissan has announced a scheme to re-use batteries from its Leaf cars in systems designed to ease the strain on the electrical grid by shaving peaks in demand and making it easier to integrate renewables. After five years powering a car, a 24kWh battery still has 20kWh charging capacity and can act as local storage for a UPS (from Nissan's partner Eaton). with multiple batteries in use, the system could support an IT room or a small enterprise data center — or deliver a small electric grid to a village in Africa, or anywhere that doesn't have a proper grid.

Submission + - Russians Build Nuclear Powered Data Center (datacenterdynamics.com)

Submitted by judgecorp
judgecorp writes: The government-owned Russian energy company Rosenergoatom is building Russia's largest data center at its giant Kalinin nuclear power station. Most of the space will be available to customers, and the facility expects to be in demand, thanks to two factors: reliable power, and the data residency rules which require Russian citizens' data to be located within Russia. Facebook and Google don't have data centers within Russia yet — and Rosenergoatom has already invited them into the Kalinin facility.

Submission + - Paris Data Center Not Too Noisy, After All (datacenterdynamics.com)

Submitted by judgecorp
judgecorp writes: A Paris court has ruled that a suburban data center can continue to operate, reversing an earlier decision to close it down after protests from residents. The data center's owner, Interxion, cited noise impact studies form 2014 which showed the site was operating within authorized limits, and also within the levels it predicted in its planning application

Submission + - $600k Fine Over Data Center Death (datacenterdynamics.com)

Submitted by judgecorp
judgecorp writes: UK contractors Balfour Beatty and Norland have been fined £380,000 ($580k) after an electrician was electrocuted while working on a data center owned by finance firm Morgan Stanley. The fine follows mounting concern that safety is being compromised because of the need for data centers to remain online non-stop. This leads to pressure for contractors to work on live power supplies.

Submission + - Noise Protests Close Paris Data Center (datacenterdynamics.com)

Submitted by judgecorp
judgecorp writes: Data center firm Interxion has been ordered to close a data center in Paris over protests from residents. The local group complained about noise and large quantities of stored diesel fuel at the site, saying that the consultation which allowed it to open in 2012 was flawed. Now Interxion's license has been revoked and it has two months to appeal

Submission + - Military Data Center In A Suitcase To Get Commercial Release (datacenterdynamics.com)

Submitted by judgecorp
judgecorp writes: The Mobyl Data Center, .designed for the US Department of Defense, puts a data center in a rugged suitcase-sized box, and it will shortly be available commercially. The box includes up to 88 Xeon cores a maximum of 176 GB of RAM, and 2.8 TB of SSD storage with 12TB of hard disk as an option. The system uses credit-card sized MobylPC server units, sealed in epoxy, and rated to survive 300g of shock, but apparently proprietary to the vendor, Arnouse Digital Devices Corp.

Submission + - Data Center Standard Proposal Adds WEE to PUE (datacenterdynamics.com)

Submitted by judgecorp
judgecorp writes: A proposed revision to the data center efficiency standard will delight the infantile by adding WEE to PUE. Seriously, PUE is widely used to compare data center efficiency, but critics say it is unfairly biased to sites in the Northern Hemisphere which can use evaporative cooling, and ignores the environmental impact of water use by data centers. Simply adding the evaporative energy of water to a measure based on electrical energy will face a lot of opposition however — on various grounds including science and marketing.

Submission + - Open Compute Project Comes Under Fire (datacenterdynamics.com)

Submitted by judgecorp
judgecorp writes: The Open Compute Project, the Facebook-backed effort to create low-cost open source hardware for data centers has come under fire for a slack testing regime. The criticism was first aired at The Register where an anonymous test engineer described the Projects testing as a 'complete and total joke'. The founding director of the project, Cole Crawford has penned an open letter in reply. The issue seems to be that the testing for standard highly-reliable hardware used by telcos and the like is very thorough and expensive. Some want the OCP to use more rigorous testing to replicate that level of reliability. Crawford argues that web-scale data centers are designed to cope with hardware failures, and 'Tier 1' reliability would be a waste of effort

Submission + - Data centers face embedded systems threat (datacenterdynamics.com)

Submitted by judgecorp
judgecorp writes: Remember the danger from embedded systems in power stations and other infrastructure — controlled by insecure protocols such as SCADA? The problem could also affect data centers, according to Singapore-based critical systems expert Ed Ansett. The IT kit in data centers may be secure — but it is placed in a building whose heating and power systems, installed by non-IT people, may include unsecured embedded network access. In these sites, the data may be secure, but the systems could be shut down by attackers interfering with temperature controls or power supplies, Ansett warns.

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