Sun to set up data center in coal mine

Posted on November 19th, 2007 at 5:35 am to Computerworld by Computerworld Staff
Sun and a consortium of other businesses are going to lower Blackbox self-contained computing facilities into a Japanese coal mine to set up an underground data center, using up to 50 percent less power than a ground-level data center.  Full story »

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