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Friday data center tidbits. The tax break incentives in the data center war are getting absolutely crazy. Virginia throws in 10 years of no sales tax on IT equipment, North Carolina ups the ante with $10.3 million for Apple. Given the small number of people actually employed in these facilities, do they really gain more than they give out in corporate welfare? Have you ever been inspired to write haiku about a data center? P Wednesday data center tidbits. First up this morning is the news about HP’s new 20 foot data center container and here. Let’s do a little math on this. This container is $600,000 for 500U of space. Just space, no IT equipment, no cooling, no power gear, just a steel box with racks. That’s $1200 per 1U. I’m pretty sure I can rehab enough conventional floor space for 500U of equipment for FAR less than $12 Tuesday data center tidbits. Today we have the strange revelation, that, while Facebook is touting the use of renewable power resources in its Oregon data center, the utility supplying them is actually mostly coal fired. Cheap? Probably. Renewable? Not unless you’ve got millions of years. Green? Not a chance. Greenwash? Sounds like it to me. Next up is the new IBM data center exhibit at Disney. Not that I havn’t b
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