Comments on: The Big Chill: Scandinavia Hosts Tech Companies’ Data http://www.theworld.org/2012/05/data-centers-nordic-countries/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=data-centers-nordic-countries Global Perspectives for an American Audience Tue, 12 Feb 2013 14:49:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: JONATHAN EVANS http://www.theworld.org/2012/05/data-centers-nordic-countries/comment-page-1/#comment-24592 JONATHAN EVANS Fri, 25 May 2012 06:31:00 +0000 http://www.theworld.org/?p=122036#comment-24592 We regard our facility as 'The greenest data centre in the world' as it has no carbon emissions and uses fjord water for cooling. Jonathan www.greenmountain.no We regard our facility as ‘The greenest data centre in the world’ as it has no carbon emissions and uses fjord water for cooling. Jonathan http://www.greenmountain.no

]]> By: RayDuray http://www.theworld.org/2012/05/data-centers-nordic-countries/comment-page-1/#comment-24589 RayDuray Thu, 24 May 2012 22:32:00 +0000 http://www.theworld.org/?p=122036#comment-24589 Facebook opened a new data center in Central Oregon in 2011. When the plan was announced, many of us asked about the sense of the Facebook planners who were purchasing electricity from a Wyoming coal--powered generation station 700 miles away to run air conditioning in winter when earth based heat pumps could have been powered by solar power.  But we were told we were naive.  Apparently someone with more engineering sense has been hired by Facebook in the meantime.  Facebook opened a new data center in Central Oregon in 2011. When the plan was announced, many of us asked about the sense of the Facebook planners who were purchasing electricity from a Wyoming coal–powered generation station 700 miles away to run air conditioning in winter when earth based heat pumps could have been powered by solar power. 

But we were told we were naive. 

Apparently someone with more engineering sense has been hired by Facebook in the meantime. 

]]> By: Diane Truckenbrod http://www.theworld.org/2012/05/data-centers-nordic-countries/comment-page-1/#comment-24587 Diane Truckenbrod Thu, 24 May 2012 21:36:00 +0000 http://www.theworld.org/?p=122036#comment-24587 I have worked the computer industry for decades.  In my earliest job, I could not help but question why we didn't just pull in the cold winter air in the cold months instead of running air-conditioners in January?  What did I know, I was just a 20 something. I have worked the computer industry for decades.  In my earliest job, I could not help but question why we didn’t just pull in the cold winter air in the cold months instead of running air-conditioners in January?  What did I know, I was just a 20 something.

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