Cloud Computing: A Look Inside Apple’s iDataCenter in North Carolina
April 26, 2014
Grazed from DataCenterKnowledge. Author: Rich Miller.
Apple has provided the first look inside its data centers in a series of media interviews designed to promote its use of green energy. In interviews with Wired and The Today Show, Apple Vice President of Environmental Initiative Lisa Jackson has shown off the massive solar power arrays that power the company’s data centers in Reno, Nevada and Maiden, North Carolina.
The NBC video includes a brief look inside the Maiden data center, where correspondent Anne Thompson walks through the hot aisle of a row of servers. The aisle is contained, with end doors and clear ceiling panels, and Jackson says the temperature is about 103 degrees…
Why the hot aisle? Apparently it’s to conceal the server and storage technology Apple is using. “I was allowed to describe everything I saw, with one exception: the manufacturer of the servers,” writes Wired’s Levy (who also appears in the Today Show piece). “I can say that they are not Mac Mini’s or anything else that you’d buy in an Apple store.”…
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