petite video sur leur data center en IOWA a $1.5B et ou ils vont réinvestir $1B de plus...
Today, Google confirmed that it is investing an additional $1 billion in massive Iowa data centers into which it has already put $1.5 billion. And now VentureBeat has obtained video of the massive project.
on voit pas grand chose a part la taille que ca représente...
Google told VentureBeat that:
In new video footage we’re sharing, you can see for the first time what our two Council Bluffs data center facilities look like on the inside and from the air — that’s hundreds of thousands of square feet of computing power to deliver your most important search results and your favorite videos, the instant you want them. It’s all managed by more than 300 employees and contractors hard at work across the two campuses.
Google’s data centers are some of the most efficient in the world, using 50 percent less energy than the typical data center. Google is the first major Internet services company to gain external certification of the high environmental, workplace safety, and energy management standards of its data centers. And as always, one of our highest priorities when building a new facility is finding renewable energy sources to power it. For Council Bluffs, we’ve secured 407 [megawatts] of wind power from local utility MidAmerican Energy and 114 MW of wind power from a facility in Story County, Iowa. Separately, we’ve invested $75 million in a 50 MW wind farm in Greene County, north of Des Moines.
http://venturebeat.com/2015/04/17/go-up-over-and-inside-googles-huge-iowa-data-centers-in-this-new-video/Donc en gros, google c'est les meilleurs (le marketing parle la ^^ ), 50% de conso d'énergie de moins qu'un datacenter classique, 407+114MW d'éléctricté acheté en provenance d'éolienne de deux boites différentes, et investissement de 75million de $ dans une troisième boite qui a aussi un champ d'éolienne...
donc c'est pas tout green, mais c'est pas tout charbon non plus
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