The topic of Green Data Center is something I have written for on a long time. Then I tired of it. It is time to start writing again after a long break. What does it mean to be Green? Green is something that grows and develops. It is sustainable. Many focus on a specific. A low PUE. % of renewable energy. These can help to make a solution more sustainable. Thanks to Greenpeace and many other media the focus on being Green is a checklist for a data center. I wrote the above. Below is what Generative AI wrote. Green Data Center Solutions In recent years, the concept of green data centers has gai ..read more

Today, April 11, 2023 Steve Jobs archive released Make Something Wonderful. There’s lots of ways to be, as a person. And some people express their deep appreciation in different ways. But one of the ways that I believe people express their appreciation to the rest of humanity is to make something wonderful and put it out there. And you never meet the people. You never shake their hands. You never hear their story or tell yours. But somehow, in the act of making something with a great deal of care and love, something’s transmitted there. And it’s a way of expressing to the rest of ou ..read more

Urs Hölzle posted back in Nov 2022 on Google’s Green Data Center efforts. I have not written in a long time and that will change and it is feels write that one of the posts to write about is Google’s Green Data Center efforts. Many of my good friends are at Google or have worked there. I find it with great irony that I know and chat with many more Google data center employees than Microsoft even though I worked at Microsoft for 14 years and still live in Redmond. But when it comes to discussing the green data center topic I have no problem having conversations with Google employees including U ..read more

Bill Kleyman (Switch) and Mark Seymour (Cadence) gave the close keynote at 7x24 Exchange covering a range of myths that exist which shapes people’s perceptions. An example of the myth is this slide. What drives this type of news is it creates much more traffic than the reality. The presentation continued on to cover the reality to contrast the myths. The data that is used to make data centers work. Be energy efficient, use less water. Sometimes the way media write about data centers it is like the data centers of 20 years ago that had little concern about cooling efficiency. PUE did not exist ..read more

Meta has a team discussing its water efficient data center journey from 2018 to now. Meta has a goal of being water positive by 2030. The presenters are Bharat Gopal, James Monahan, and Krishna Somayajula. The session is nicely attended which is great to see the interest in water savings. There were 33 slides in the presentation with lots of graphs and diagrams. Covering five different areas. Given Meta’s openness much of this information is available on their web site. https://sustainability.fb.com/water ..read more

I have been going to OCP since its start in 2011 at Facebook’s campus and it is nice to see that OCP and OPEN 19 are introduced to the data center building audience of 7x24 Exchange. There are a handful of people who go to both OCP Summits and 7x24 Exchange but it is not many. The panel has Greg Stover (Vertiv), John Gross (J.M. Gross Engineering), Peter Panfil (Vertiv), and Zachary Smith (Equinix). The panel discussion worked well to discuss the issue of open standards like OCP and OPEN 19 and its impact on the industry. To give you an idea of what OCP and OPEN 19 work on the following diagra ..read more

Admiral Mike Rogers is the opening Keynote at 7x24. The description of presentation is as follows. Admiral Rogers shows why and how periods of turmoil and chaos are often a leader’s greatest opportunity to shepherd transformational change. While people and organizations seem hard-wired to favor stability and resist change, necessity forces the hand of invention. According to multiple analysts and headlines, the global pandemic accelerated the digital transformation of entire industries by three to seven years—and that window of opportunity is still open—not only for technological change but ..read more

It has been 3 years since I have been at 7x24 Exchange so not writing about the conference is because I was not there. I am back and 7x24 Exchange is back big with a record breaking attendence of 972, breaking their previous attendance record by 99. Congratulations to the 7x24 Exchange team ..read more

There is a post on Arstechnica that Dvorak keyboards are now supported in iOS16. Apple and Dvorak have an interesting history. The company first included native Dvorak support for its computers in the US model of the Apple IIc, released in 1984. It included a special "Keyboard" button that would swap the layout between QWERTY and Dvorak logically, but the physical keycaps would need to be re-arranged to match if you needed a label reference. Steve “Woz” Wozniak is referenced as a Dvorak user, but he did not start using Dvorak until 1993 so Woz did not put the code into Apple OS. Interesting ..read more

I have not been to a 7x24 Exchange Conference for three years and I am going to the Fall 2022 conference in San Antonio, Oct 23-26. This conference will be an opportunity to see what is new and compare it to what has been covered in the past. Some things stay the same which can be good. And seeing what has changed and why can provide insight to the problems solved and future changes ..read more