Data Center Diaries
by Beth Bacheldor
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Greenpeace questions the green in clouds

That apple ain’t green.
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Does green really make a difference?
North American companies give cloud the most business

Where in the world are data center services booming?
Google bests itself on PUE

Google data center down – in PUE
Modern data center borrows medieval security tactics

Hope you can swim evildoers
AC vs. DC in a battle for data center efficiency

Battle of the Currents: AC vs. DC
Cloud improves data centers

Want a better data center? Try a little cloud.
Lackluster cloud demand kills a data center

Killer clouds for this data center
Cisco wants to light up data centers

Data centers may soon see the light
Telcos fire up new data centers

Calling for more data center space!

Mind-blowing data centers

By Beth Bacheldor

10-feet stone fence surrounding the facility, with another 4-feet of electrical fence on top

Gated entries

Metal detectors

Handheld scanners

Explosive sniffers

RFID-enabled access systems

Biometric scanners

1500 cameras

The Strange Ones

flickr/Glen Bowman

Data centers are being housed in the strangest of places – buildings that look like homes or parking garages or even water towers.

Lincoln Board of Education in Linoln, Neb.

Data center built in boiler room of old high school

Altamonte Springs, Fla., city government

Data center in a former water tank with 8-inch thick concrete walls and designed to hold 770,000 gallons of water

Beth Bacheldor writes ITworld's Data Center Diaries blog. For the latest IT news, analysis and how-tos, follow ITworld on Twitter and Facebook.

Beth Bacheldor is a freelance writer and editor with more than 20 years' experience, with much of that time covering the high-tech and IT industries. She has worked for numerous publications covering nearly every type of business technology, including IT outsourcing, data center operations, RFID, information security, systems management, networking, business intelligence, and enterprise applications such as enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management, and supply chain management . She has written for such publications as CIO.com, Network Computing, EdTech Magazine, Government Computer News, RFID Journal and many others. She has also written research reports for companies such as Computer Economics and Enterprise Management Associates. She spent more than a decade as a news editor and writer for InformationWeek and CommunicationsWeek. She lives by the sea in southeastern North Carolina with her two children.