Microsoft will staff its 500,000-square-foot Chicago data center with only 35 people. Read more about Microsoft’s new data center.
Source:‘How to Staff Your Next Data Center’, CIO Magazine, June 10, 2008.
Data centers built for today’s equipment range from 150 to 300 watts per square foot.
Source: ‘The 5 Pitfalls of Data Center Consolidation and Relocation”, CIO Magazine, November 19, 2008.