Where is Kevin Timmons? Cyrus One

People would regularly ask what happened to Kevin Timmons?  Thanks to Twitter you can see he is at Cyrus One as CTO.

You can run a search and see what the latest tweets are.  http://twitter.com/#!/search/kevin%20timmons

 

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Lawyer's view of Data Center Incentives, Taxes, and Sustainability 7x24 presentation

The Data Center ecosystem is filled predominantly with engineering, real estate, operations, and IT staff.  Rarely will you find a lawyer in the room.  On the other hand, the local, state, and federal ecosystem has an abundance of legal expertise.

I found this Dilbert comic with a lawyer and a technical guy talking to the CEO, and it is funny and gets across the point that companies go to the technical guy first.

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One of my data center friends is a lawyer, Jim Grice, and he is presenting at 7x24 exchange on Monday, Nov 14 at 3p.

Breakout B: Site Selection, Incentives, and Sustainability: Legal Issues and Beyond

James W. Grice
Partner & Leader, Project Solutions Group
Spencer Fane Britt & Browne LLP

Nancy Heimann

Jim has been making great progress being one of the few attorneys who can help the client's legal strategy in data center development.  I know there will be a bunch of us in the room ready to throw out more lawyer jokes.  :-)

How many attorneys does it take to develop a data center?

Security #1, Environmental Impact #2 in eWaste IT Pro Survey

Intechra has a survey on IT Asset Disposition, aka eWaste showing the change in priorities of security to #1 vs. environmental impact.  Some of you may disappointed environmental is not #1.  The reality is few people will lose their job for environmental impact, but you can definitely lose your job for letting company data escape into the waste stream and survive.  In Disposal of IT Assets, #1 priority is to make sure information is disposed of properly.

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On the environmental side, the desire to avoid the legal and financialrisks of improper e-waste disposal has surpassed the desire to be“green” on the list of motivations for outsourcing an ITAD program.IT pros are aware that there are more laws governing the disposal ofe-waste than ever before, creating special challenges for enterpriseswith locations in multiple states and countries.

Here is breakdown of the priorities.

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Here is another view of the prorates in a 1 to 5 ranking view.

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Attending 2011 Data Center Efficiency Summit

Nov 18, 2011 is Silicon Valley Leadership Group's 2011 Data Center Efficiency Summit.  Registration is here.

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2011 Data Center Efficiency Summit

Friday, November 18, 2011 from 7:30 AM to 6:00 PM (PT)

San Jose, CA

 

I"ll be there as besides great presentations, there are some great people attending.

It is sad to think that the 2010 summit is the last time I saw my departed friend Olivier Sanche, and we didn't get a chance to connect for dinner.  My thought was that's OK I'll see Olivier next time.  I was so wrong.  I am sure i'll have a tear or two when I go to the event and I reminisce with others the last time we saw Olivier energetically walking the group, greeting many with a smile and high energy.

Microsoft comes a long way with Water use in Quincy, Transfers water treatment plant to City of Quincy

When Microsoft's Quincy data center opened, I was able to get a tour of the data center.  One of the questions I asked is how much water does the data center use.  I asked the data center operations staff, they didn't know.  I asked the data center design team, they didn't know either.  And, a response was why do you want to know?  Because I think you use lots of water, and it is an issue in a green data center.

When I went back out to the data center a few months later, the data center operation team said they are storing blow-down water in tanks, and they have 6 months before the tanks fill up.  This problem was not unique to Microsoft as other data center operators had blow-down water that cannot be put into the waste stream.

A water treatment plant was built to reduce the environmental impact.  And now, Microsoft has put a plan in place to transfer the water treatment plant to the City of Quincy.

Microsoft’s Data Center Takes Fresh Approach On Water Reuse

13 Oct 2011 10:00 AM

Today we are transferring our $ multi-million water treatment plant to city of Quincy, WA

By: Christian Belady, General Manager of Data Center Advanced Development

Around the globe, water is becoming a scarcer and more valuable commodity, and that’s an important factor for data center operators and cloud service providers to consider as consumers and businesses aggressively adopt cloud-based computing. It’s even more critical that all of us in the industry make sure that beyond building sustainability into our designs, running data centers to higher standardize efficiencies, and measuring impact constantly, that we are helping the industry at large in thinking out of the box.

Today offers one of those opportunities. In Quincy, Washington, we are taking steps to transfer the operations of our Water Treatment Plant, located on our data center site, to the City of Quincy. This project involves innovative agreements for promoting a long term sustainable use of a limited natural resource, water, in a desert area that has the added benefit of supporting the foundation of Quincy and Grant County’s growing economy for years to come. To my knowledge, it is the first known transfer of a water treatment plant to a municipality in our industry and I would like to share why I think this type of collaborative project helps the industry and environment benefit as a whole.


Microsoft’s Quincy, Washington Water Treatment Plant

Google's Joe Kava discussed water use in data centers in its 2009 data center summit.  Joe's presentation on water start at the 9:20 mark.

A green data center has smart water use in addition to efficient power and cooling systems.