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[Antony Barry]

On 04/10/2007, at 1:45 PM, grove at zeta.org.au wrote:

> It's not the servers.  It's the air conditioning used to keep them  
> cool.
>
> How about fitting out a Sun Blackbox container to be entirely  
> provisioned
> using low power servers (like the Sun T series) and renewable energy?

Using more energy to get rid of heat which you could have harvested  
to run the system seems daft. Yes I know it's low grade heat but at  
the minimum you could circulate water through the system via  
convection and evaporative cooling to shed the heat.

Tony

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