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Friday, May 21, 2010

What links cows and datacenters?

Researchers at HP claim that "America’s dairy farmers could soon find themselves in the computer business, with the manure from their cows possibly powering the vast data centers of companies like Google and Microsoft".



According to HP’s calculations, 10,000 cows could fuel a 1 MW data center, which would be the equivalent of a small computing center used by a bank. Going one step further, they also claim that the heat produced by data center equipments could also be used to power biogas plants which require heat.

2 comments:

Vijaya Chamundi said...

Nice one.

Vijaya Chamundi

Unknown said...

Indian villages have long used this to power cooking. Seems like world is going around in circles. As Indians get more affluent they are moving on to LNG and American Society is moving towards sustainability by going back Manure :)