I came across this article and thought it was funny as well as intriguing that a datacenter could be powered by…crap. HP is studying this issue although they say they are not currently exploring where to put this technology to work. Cullen Bash, a member of HP’s Sustainable IT Ecosystem Lab team says, “It can be done today.” I initially thought that the majority of US dairy farms are located in the Midwest but after doing some quick research I found that California is where the large farms (2,000+ cows) dominate and is the Nation’s largest milk producing state. I thought that is a perfect situation as most of the tech giants, Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Intel and HP are headquartered in the Golden State so proximity wouldn’t be an issue. Although these dairy farms aren’t located in the Silicon Valley they wouldn’t be relatively too far away either. I also thought it would be a great application to use for underdeveloped countries because generally speaking their economies are agriculturally based so it would be great synergy helping to diversify and grow an economy using none other than the power of BS. http://www.greenbiz.com/blog/2010/05/18/hp-envisions-cow-powered-data-centers?page=0%2C0

Tags: datacenter, HP, sustainable IT

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