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Microsoft, Google Battle Over Energy Efficiency 164

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday October 21, 2008 @05:45AM from the anything-you-can-light-i-can-light-cheaper dept.

1sockchuck writes "Microsoft and Google have opened a new front in their battle for global domination: data center energy efficiency. Just weeks after Google published data on the extreme efficiency of its previously secret data centers, Microsoft says it has achieved similar results with shipping containers (despite Google's patent) packed with up to 2,500 servers. The geeky benchmark for the battle is Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE), a green data-center metric advanced by The Green Grid. Microsoft says its containers tested at a PUE of 1.22, while Google reported an average PUE of 1.21 for its data centers, which apparently are also now using containers."

Comment Re:Great, even more insecure web apps (Score 0) 370

by Izmir Stinger on Wednesday July 23, 2008 @10:41AM (#24304291) Attached to: Slimmed Down MySQL Offshoot Drizzle is Built For the Web

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Google Patents Shipping-Container Data Centers 207

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday October 09, 2007 @12:43PM from the pick-it-up-and-move-it-out dept.

theodp writes "Two years ago, Robert X. Cringely wrote that Google was experimenting with portable data centers built in standard shipping containers. The idea, Cringely explained, wasn't new and wasn't even Google's, backing up his claim with a link to an Internet-Archive-in-a-Shipping-Container presentation (PDF, dated 11-8-2003) that was reportedly pitched to Larry Page. Google filed for a patent on essentially the same concept on 12-30-2003. And on Tuesday, the USPTO issued the search giant a patent for Modular Data Centers housed in shipping containers, which Google curiously notes facilitate 'rapid and easy relocation to another site depending on changing economic factors'. That's a statement that may make those tax-abating NC officials a tad uneasy."

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