[mythtv-users] Cooling data centres (Was: raid array spin down possible?)

[Ian Clark]

On 27 September 2011 16:21, Richard Morton <richard.e.morton at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ron,
>
> Agreed re humidity but was it ms or google who have done this recently,
> piping in air from outside to save a bundle.
>
Wasn't that in iceland or somewhere similar?

They do also combine it with rapid workload migration so they can
simply not use a datacenter if it gets too hot, which is probably less
practical for those of us who don't run a fifth of the internet. :)

Oh, turns out it was Belgium...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/16/google_chillerless_data_center/

Ian