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From the weekly Computerworld Mailer. For those of you that don't realize the problems with data center power & cooling.

Some tidbits from the exec summaries
- While vendors are designing blade servers requiring up to 20KW per rack, most data centers designed to cool no more than 2kW per rack.
- From infrastructure cost standpoint, the benefits of increasing density are small, the benefits of reducing power consumption is high. A 50% reduction in space gives a 4% improvement in TCO, a 50% reduction in power gives 35% reduction in TCO.
- Has some graphs on actual capabilities of data centers. 90% of data centers had capability of <3kW/rack, 60W/ft^2 cooling.

From: Power and Cooling for High Density Racks & Blade Servers
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