Best location for big datacenters using Sun blackbox? Wind & cold water locations
Wednesday Jul 18, 2007
Scientific American covers Sun Project Blackbox in August 2007. Online Article.
In this article David Patterson talked about "...putting blackboxes closer to inexpensive or environmentally friendly sources of electricity, like a hydroelectric dam or a wind turbine."
But maybe even a better economic advantage would be putting it closer to both cheap power and cold water...
See this article from the Economist about Cold water "Hydrothermal cooling is a novel approach that uses cold water from lakes and oceans to run air-conditioning systems"
Then remember my blog entry about real work on deploying Windmills on de-commissioned oil rigs.
Reminds me that I once read about water near the base of oil rigs in southern California being at 7C. You wouldn't need the 5KM of pipes that Toronto is building. What about oil rigs at other locations?
So would a big datacenter be best constructed by having lots of Sun's blackboxes on some platform in the ocean using water drawn from the bottom to cool it and power from the wind to only power computation and some pumps for cooling?
...maybe a slight redesign for the North Sea windmills needs to be looked at 
http://www.hydro.com/en/press_room/news/archive/2005_11/hywind_en.html.
That water is kinda chilly...
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