Off to Iceland to see how green a data center can be

I am off to Iceland to check how green the data centers opportunity is.  I'll see how much time I have to write.  I do plan on taking my Canon 6D to take pictures.  Some of my friends have gone to Iceland, and this my first time.

Here is what shows up in a Google search of "iceland data center"

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2. Iceland bets future on large data center development | Datacenter ...

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   Mar 6, 2013 - A public-owned energy company that deals in geothermal and hydro power in Iceland's capital city Reykjavik is finalizing plans to secure a 50 ...

3. Images for iceland data center

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4. Iceland, Data-Center Hub? - Businessweek

   www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-03-28/iceland-data-center-hub‎

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   Mar 29, 2012 - On the southwestern tip of Iceland, housed in a former NATO air base, a new $700 million data center is waiting to host the world's information.

5. Verne Global | The Smart Data Center Solution

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   Datacenter Dynamics Converged - London. 09/19/2013. Iceland Investment Forum 2013. 08/20/2013. Verne Global Honored With Two Stevie® Awards in 2013 ...

6. Datapipe Opens Green HPC Cloud Node in Iceland | Data Center ...

   

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   Jun 17, 2013 - Datapipe has made Statosphere, its high performance computing (HPC) cloud platform available out of Verne Global's facility, which uses ...

    

7. Iceland Data Center

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   As energy costs increase and environmental standards tighten, Iceland Data Centerstands as the smart choice for substantial savings on secure, superior data ...

   
   
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A Day at DatacenterDynamics Seattle 2013

Today is one of those days I don't have to get on a plane to go to a data center conference.  DatacenterDynamics Seattle is in its 6th year.  

Part of my duties is moderating a panel discussion.

Sustainable Power, Sustainable Operations, and Sustainable Design
Peter M. Curtis
President & CEO, Power Management Concepts LLC

Dave Ohara
President, GreenM3 LLC

Leonard Ruff
AIA Principal, Mission Critical Design, Callison, LLC

I'll be at the conference all day so no blogging for the rest of the day.

Is your Data Center where Dell's Fresh Air Cooling will work?

Here is a map of where Dell says Fresh Air Cooling will work with their hardware.

The blog post is here.

Forrest Norrod, VP—Server Solutions 

5 Sep 2013 12:50 PM 

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We are proud to announce the next iteration of the Dell Fresh Air Hot House, an ongoing project at Dell with partner Intel and customer Essor Partners LLC. The Fresh Air Hot House, located in Round Rock, Texas, showcases the extreme temperature and humidity tolerances of off-the-shelf Dell Fresh Air capable hardware while performing at high workload levels in a non-air-conditioned environment.

Dell embarked on the Fresh Air design mission after hearing from our customers. They told us they were challenged for operating expenditure and data center capacity, and they needed a solution. Based on those conversations, we set out to design a server capable of performing continuously up to 35°C (95°F) and for time-based excursion operation up to 45°C (113°F) with humidity up to 90%, covering most of the environmental ranges in the world. Through years of comprehensive research and development, we found that a fresh air cooled data center using our Dell Fresh Air capable hardware could be deployed almost anywhere.

And the video is here.

Intel launches Intel Inside brand in Amazon Web Services with Marketing $$$s, bad news for ARM vendors

Intel Inside ®  is a recognized label on your laptop.  Now Intel has announced Intel Inside in a Cloud.  Amazon Web Sevices Cloud.

·        Amazon Web Services becomes first cloud service provider to use the “Intel Inside®” brand, letting its customers know that the services it provides utilize Intel technology.

Why did Intel negotiate with Amazon to have Intel Inside brand in the Cloud?  It looks like there is co-marketing of Intel advertising to sell the use of compute on AWS on this site http://www.powerof60.com/en/.

Intel advertising money showing up in a Cloud to market compute scenarios is something the ARM vendors are going to have a tough time competing against.

And Another Candidate for Microsoft CEO job? Jeff Raikes

The media is all in a tizzy that Stephen Elop is the leading CEO candidate.

The point I make and still stick to is the next CEO is going to be someone Bill trusts.  How long did Bill work with Stephen Elop.  Not much.

He spent way more time with his CEO of the Gates Foundation Jeff Raikes.  And Jeff just resigned as CEO.

Bill Gates ‏@BillGates1h

Thanks @jeffraikes for your leadership @gatesfoundation. You've been a great partner.

Jeff Raikes‏@jeffraikes

Thanks @MelindaGates and @BillGates for the opportunity to work with you in leading the @GatesFoundation these last five years.

Geekwire doesn't think Jeff is the next Microsoft CEO.  Maybe Steve Ballmer will be the next CEO of the Gates foundation.

 Raikes was recently included on some speculative lists of potential candidates to replace Ballmer. However, based on what I’m hearing from multiple sources this morning, Raikes’ retirement is not a sign that he is going to back to Microsoft.