1. Along with heavy power consumption for the hardware, he noted that server farms require additional electricity for air conditioners to counter all the heat generated by the machinery. 2. As one step, Intel announced in April that it was planning a big move into Internet services by building and running server farms. 3. Executives differ, though, about where server farms must be located. 4. Internet companies like America Online, to be sure, will have their own server farms. 5. Regardless, those concerns are making it more cumbersome to set up new server farms. 6. San Francisco, for instance, just adopted temporary rules barring server farms from displacing existing businesses that serve the neighborhood, and requiring they be energy efficient. 7. She has to answer a lot of questions about whether her server farms have backup power. 8. Some experts think that conventional server farms can do the job less expensively than genomics accelerators can and can also be used for other tasks. 9. Such computer centers, known as server farms, are the unglamorous side of the Internet revolution. 10. Sprawling installations filled with powerful small computers, known as server farms, are used to handle electronic commerce and host the World Wide Web sites for other companies. |