Hewlett Packard wants to use cow power for its data centers
May 18, 2010
Hewlett Packard is recommending that dairy farmers go into the high tech business by converting cow manure into electricity – and then using that electricity to power a different type of farm – a server farm at a data center.
HP says that the manure from 10,000 dairy cows would provide enough power for a 1 megawatt data center.
The idea is this: As our demand grows for computing power and data storage, the capacity to power data centers is not keeping up properly. HP’s goal is to use sustainable processes to build data centers that are self-sufficient. That is, build data centers whose power sources are from sustainable energy sources and whose heat output can be recycled and reused within that same data center
Hewlett Packard wants to use cow power for its data centers
