For those interested in green cloud computing, may I draw your attention to one of the earliest low-footprint data-center concepts out there:
The Container Data Center by Sun and others: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Modular_Datacenter
I was very fond of this idea when it popped up a few years ago, but was surprised to find it didn't take off the way I thought it would. It seems like the black-box approach to data-center facilities management, and the green benefits would make the concept popular. Maybe not so much. Or, perhaps good things take time to percolate....
-David Waugh-
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