I ran across a couple of interesting posts on CleanTechnica recently, and then a newspaper article tonight that prompted this blog post. The CleanTechnica posts I liked were:
- UK becomes world's biggest producer of offshore wind power
- Off grid, tidal-powered data center in UK
- Alternative fuels could deplete water supplies
Then - today the St. Louis Post-Dispatch had an article on designing buildings for increased productivity. The thing that caught my attention was the mention of the new $21 million Monsanto data center. I imagine/hope I am reading too much into this, but.....
"...Fox aimed to limit human errors by introducing daylight into much of the space. The firm said studies showed natural light improved the efficiency and mood of employees."
I'm all for this in the office space -- but they seemed to be talking particularly about the data center itself. Any reader of my blog would know there are any number of security, natural disaster and other concerns with putting windows in the data center! Anyway...the construction video is below...
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