Microsoft plans to install solar panels on the roof of its new Internet data center in San Antonio to provide renewable energy for some of the facility’s massive power requirements. The $550 million, 470,000 square feet facility will ultimately use more than 50 megawatts of power, making it the largest single customer of the local utility, CPS Energy. The facility will house thousands of servers to power Microsoft's Live online services.Microsoft's decision to use solar panels in this setting is unusual. Data centers use enormous amounts of electricity, but few of these facilities use solar power because of the cost and scalability issues. Only one small data center, AISO, is known to be powered entirely by solar power.
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Dam...with like 20% of the worlds internet traffic going to the domain www.live.com itself. And thats not including msn messenger.
http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/live.com
Plus you have to think about the huge amount of bandwidth microsoft will be using when skydrive and mesh go live.
Thats called low request volume eh
****ing trolls.
They won't need that many servers for Live.
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