Tag: Data center

Secret Apple Data Center

Apple has quietly been building a data center in Maiden, North Carolina.  It’s apparently well underway.  What makes this of interest is that the explicit purpose of the enormous and secretive center has never been announced. Related articles A First Look at Apple’s Massive Data Center (readwriteweb.com)… Continue reading

Google’s Carbon Footprint

This is fascinating. I knew that data centers required massive amounts of power to run the computers and keep them cool, but I hadn’t thought of it in these terms. How much CO2 does a google search produce if a google search produces CO2? Well, Harvard physicist Alex Wissner-Gross did the math: a typical search generates about 7g of CO2… Continue reading