Have you heard about the two “Damn Daniel!”
guys? I have! They were recently on the Ellen Show explaining how their videos
depicting the clothing style of Daniel (mainly composed of white vans) became
so infamous that they cannot go to Target without being recognized! What a
life! To be honest, after watching those videos, I went straight online to buy
white vans on eBay. Oh wait! Do you know about the eBay Mercury Data Center? I
bet you don’t.
The
online Auction Site and Marketplace eBay wanted something different from the
standard boring box shaped building with its Project Mercury Data Center built in 2011 in Phoenix, Arizona. In an unusual
move eBay had issued a public request for proposals and invited outside firms
to submit designs. The containerized
data center is one of the most efficient data centers ever built, recording
exceptional performance on industry metrics while operating in temperatures as
high as 115 degrees F. The eBay facility provides some of the best evidence to
date that the industry’s efforts to share best practices on design and
operations have dramatically improved the energy efficiency of data centers. eBay’s
Phoenix facility features high-density server deployments that are cooled with
hot water, a strategy that works in data centers operating at elevated
temperatures. The eBay facility uses traditional raised-floor space, but also deploys
servers in data center containers on the roof of the building. It features standardized
hardware, apps, and processes so additional resources can easily be added as
needed. Much of the center’s processing capacity comes from the containerized
servers on the roof. These
strategies have yielded unusual efficiency. The Phoenix data center recorded an
average Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) of 1.35 during a one-week period in
January 2012, while the rooftop containers had a partial PUE of 1.018. That
means that at peak efficiency, the IT equipment in eBay’s containers was using
more than 98 percent of the available power, an accomplishment which appears to
have no precedent.
The Data Center
takes its design cues from the movie Tron: Legacy
(the coolest thing ever!!!!). During the grand opening, eBay showed a
video of staffers dressed in Tron outfits using glowing discs and light sabers
to fend off a denial of service attack. I am so JEALOUS right now…
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