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sparesr4sissies — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:38:24 GMT

Thanks for the update. I look forward to checking out David and Christian's new blog.

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Rcat01 — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:30:29 GMT

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magicalclick — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 08:12:13 GMT

Really cool. I have heard of container data center, but this video helps to understand how it is envisioned. I think the best part about it is that you only need few places to setup the containers. All the comupters are arraived at one hardware preparationg center and then you set them up in a centralized place. Instead of training people to do it or have people travel on site, you can do it in one place and have it ship to (may I say) world wide. This certainly make data center deployment a lot easier, faster, more manageable.

Really Really Nice

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David Tesar — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 02:00:30 GMT

I'm curious how having the containers outside when it is hot out would save costs (assuming you don't move the containers as Neil suggested) with cooling vs. having it in a traditional enclosed space... maybe the cost for this is higher or the same as a traditional enclosed data center, but is more than made up for it by having the containers outside during the cool months?

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Neil Hutson — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 04:30:51 GMT

This is a pretty amazing vision, and with the fact that these machines could effectively be transfered anywhere in the world ( customs aside ), you could transition them based on the price of power, network demand and potentially whether it was winter or summer.

You see birds migrating south in the winter, maybe one data you will see datacenters migrating too, to find the cool locations.