One off the sessions this day was the discussion about power in the data-centers. Data-centers are build with the knowledge of the 70-80’s. Virtualisation and the use of high density blade servers now, are the reason to redesign data-centers. Even energy saving processors are not enough to decrease the powering costs of data-centers. Now the energy bill for a servers lifetime is more than the server costs.
Al Gore has done good work: Also IT is involved to decrease power consumption. Save our environment! Maybe we can heat a nice jacuzzi with the heat off our data-centers. Or placed into the solid mountains of Switzerland powered and cooled by water.
