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Re: PG&E on data centre cooling..

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Hennigan)
Sat Mar 31 22:38:28 2007

Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 19:31:53 -0700
From: Jay Hennigan <jay@west.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20070401011600.GE78593@jkdt.thrashyour.com>
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John Kinsella wrote:

> I sorta wonder why the default is lights on, actually...I used to always
> love walking into dark datacenters and seeing the banks of GSRs (always
> thought they had good Blink) and friends happily blinking away. 

Consider the power consumption per square foot of the gear in a typical 
data center, then add in the power needed to keep it cool.  I suspect 
that the cost of energy to keep the lights on will be down in the noise.

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