Internet companies are learning that small towns are often great places to set up data centers. They have lots of land, cheap energy, low-cost labor, and something that may be a secret weapon in the race toward internet nirvana: cow dung.http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2011/11/the-data-center-of-the-future/all/1
Energy is a limited resource and CO2 causes climate change.
http://enveconomics.blogspot.com/2011/07/green-it.html
Datacenters consume a lot of energy and many companies are trying to innovate new ways to save energy.
The dung-fired data center is closer than even Patel first thought. There are lots of places where they’d work, he says. You don’t need to build any special generators or equipment, and cows are everywhere. “We found many sites where it is totally doable today,” he says, “You can go anywhere from South Dakota to Wisconsin to Virginia. Even between Chicago and Indiana there are lots of dairy farms.”http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2011/11/the-data-center-of-the-future/all/1
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