Comment Re:2 MEGAwatts?!?! (Score 1) 257
Look... Just think about one moment. Enterprise datacenters. Motherboards with 2 or 4 Dualcore CPU. At least 500W power font per blade server.
Now, a real case. I worked on a oil company datacenter that had a 8.000 blade servers. No place for a stop. Full time heavy calculations (lots of jobs to process - load everytime). Terabytes of data, six robots tape backup. If each one of these servers were equiped with a 500W font, we're talking about 4MWatts just for the servers. You will need two generators to mantain the job flowing.
And don't forget the air conditioning system. Or you're thinking of mantain the datacenter working WITHOUT the air condition system??
See?! And if you need redundancy...
Now, a real case. I worked on a oil company datacenter that had a 8.000 blade servers. No place for a stop. Full time heavy calculations (lots of jobs to process - load everytime). Terabytes of data, six robots tape backup. If each one of these servers were equiped with a 500W font, we're talking about 4MWatts just for the servers. You will need two generators to mantain the job flowing.
And don't forget the air conditioning system. Or you're thinking of mantain the datacenter working WITHOUT the air condition system??
See?! And if you need redundancy...
