Chandrakant Patel, director of the Sustainable IT Ecosystem Lab at HP Labs, explains how the manure output of cows on dairy farms and the heat output of data centers can be combined to create an economically and environmentally sustainable operation.
Google picked The Dalles, Oregon, as an ideal location for its data center - hydro power from the Columbia River, one of the consistently windiest locations in North America, 300+ days of sunshine... sounds like they should be thinking about the neighboring dairy farms too!
shreddagorge 10 months ago
now this guy know what he is talking about!
skardam 1 year ago