Data center power and cooling issues set to continue

June 17th, 2007 • Related • Filed Under

http://vmblog.com/archive/2007/06/16/gartner-predicts-data-center-power-and-cooling-crisis.aspx

At the Data Center Power and Cooling Challenge seminar held at the Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations and Management Summit 2007 this week, an attendee poll of the 100 or so attendees uncovered that the greatest facility problems with data centers are insufficient cooling (37%) and insufficient power (43%).

Of those polled at the session, 93% said they will expand/upgrade, relocate or renovate their facility to accommodate power and cooling needs over the next year.

“Power and cooling is a pandemic in the world of the data center,” said Michael Bell, research vice president at Gartner Inc., who headed the seminar. “By next year, about half the world’s data centers will be functionally obsolete due to insufficient power and cooling capacity to meet the demands of high-density equipment.”

Very cool, check out this post, it’s talking about data center power and cooling issues becoming ever more significant, it’s an interesting post and mentions that Gartner predicts there will be 7 million or so blades by 2011. A significant data center hosting, power and cooling requirement. Hopefully as we gain more efficient ways of deploying the infrastructure we can try and offset this.

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