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Re: PG&E on data centre cooling..

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dorn Hetzel)
Thu Mar 29 20:17:36 2007

Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 19:16:28 -0500
From: "Dorn Hetzel" <dhetzel@gmail.com>
To: "Mike Lyon" <mike.lyon@gmail.com>
Cc: "Jonathan Lassoff" <jof@thejof.com>,
	"Alexander Harrowell" <a.harrowell@gmail.com>,
	"nanog list" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <1b5c1c150703291559i15d1ab61tcedbfb973c54cf07@mail.gmail.com>
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I preferred the darkness of PAIX back in the late 90's.  We had a christmas
tree in our cage and it looked great in the dark :)

On 3/29/07, Mike Lyon <mike.lyon@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Wonder if they visited Equinix in South San Jose... There ain't no
> light in that place... But, i still think it's one of the better ones
> that I have been in.
>
> -Mike
>
>
> On 3/29/07, Jonathan Lassoff <jof@thejof.com> wrote:
> >
> > From the article: "San Francisco-based 365 Main has ... installed
> > lighting controls that automatically turn off lights..."
> >
> > That's funny, I've never really noticed.
> > I've worked out of 365 for a while now at all hours of the day, and
> > it's still the brightest facility that I've ever been too. It always
> > seemed folly to me that they had fairly bright fluorescent lights over
> > all of the datacenter floor, even when nobody has badged in, when they
> > don't even have cameras covering a majority of every colocation room.
> > It's a very nice facility, but you certainly pay for it, and they have
> > some of the more wasteful operating practices that I've seen.
> >
> > -j
> >
> > On 3/29/07, Alexander Harrowell <a.harrowell@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9014674&source=rss_news50
> > >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Jonathan Lassoff
> > echo thejof | sed 's/^/jof@/;s/$/.com/'
> > http://thejof.com
> > GPG: 0xC8579EE5
> >
>

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I preferred the darkness of PAIX back in the late 90&#39;s.&nbsp; We had a christmas tree in our cage and it looked great in the dark :)<br><br>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/29/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Mike Lyon</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:mike.lyon@gmail.com">mike.lyon@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"><br>Wonder if they visited Equinix in South San Jose... There ain&#39;t no<br>light in that place... But, i still think it&#39;s one of the better ones
<br>that I have been in.<br><br>-Mike<br><br><br>On 3/29/07, Jonathan Lassoff &lt;<a href="mailto:jof@thejof.com">jof@thejof.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br>&gt;<br>&gt; From the article: &quot;San Francisco-based 365 Main has ... installed
<br>&gt; lighting controls that automatically turn off lights...&quot;<br>&gt;<br>&gt; That&#39;s funny, I&#39;ve never really noticed.<br>&gt; I&#39;ve worked out of 365 for a while now at all hours of the day, and<br>&gt; it&#39;s still the brightest facility that I&#39;ve ever been too. It always
<br>&gt; seemed folly to me that they had fairly bright fluorescent lights over<br>&gt; all of the datacenter floor, even when nobody has badged in, when they<br>&gt; don&#39;t even have cameras covering a majority of every colocation room.
<br>&gt; It&#39;s a very nice facility, but you certainly pay for it, and they have<br>&gt; some of the more wasteful operating practices that I&#39;ve seen.<br>&gt;<br>&gt; -j<br>&gt;<br>&gt; On 3/29/07, Alexander Harrowell &lt;
<a href="mailto:a.harrowell@gmail.com">a.harrowell@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br>&gt; &gt;<br>&gt; &gt; <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&amp;articleId=9014674&amp;source=rss_news50">
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&amp;articleId=9014674&amp;source=rss_news50</a><br>&gt; &gt;<br>&gt;<br>&gt;<br>&gt; --<br>&gt; Jonathan Lassoff<br>&gt; echo thejof | sed &#39;s/^/jof@/;s/$/.com/&#39;
<br>&gt; <a href="http://thejof.com">http://thejof.com</a><br>&gt; GPG: 0xC8579EE5<br>&gt;<br></blockquote></div><br>

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