Wednesday, November 2, 2011

An inside look at America’s largest data centers (infographic)



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An article by Tom Cheredar on the website venturebeat.com on the Cloud Beat webpage, with accompanying infographic by Wikibon.

This article provides some insight into the largest data centers in the U.S., along with an interesting infographic.

The article states, "...it takes 11 diesel generators to power Microsoft’s 700,000-square foot data center in Chicago, which stores data for XBox Live, the company’s Bing search engine, its email service Hotmail and over 200 other sites. The QTS Metro data center in Atlanta, Georgia — which stores data for Twitter’s 100 million active users — takes 19 diesel generators."

A portion of the infographic is provided below, and the complete infographic is provided in the article:

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