{"id":577839,"date":"2010-05-25T07:32:23","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T11:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"tag:greentechnolog.com,2010:\/\/1.2442"},"modified":"2010-05-25T06:50:33","modified_gmt":"2010-05-25T10:50:33","slug":"hp-uses-bio-fuels-for-rural-data-center-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/577839","title":{"rendered":"HP Uses Bio Fuels for Rural Data Center Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"3\" height=\"180\" border=\"3\" align=\"left\" width=\"120\" vspace=\"3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hpl.hp.com\/news\/2010\/apr-jun\/images\/wastefordatacenter_1.jpg\" alt=\"Cow\" title=\"Cow\" \/>Data Centers are moving to rural areas where land and labor are less expensive.&nbsp; There are often farms and lots of cows &#8230; and therefore lots of cow manure.<\/p>\n<p>A significant cost of operating data centers is the electric bill. <\/p>\n<p>&quot; &#8230; Hewlett-Packard &#8230;simultaneously help dairy farmers get rid of cow  manure and help data center operators procure relatively cheap fuel:  Use the manure to power&nbsp;servers.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot; &#8230; data centers &#8230; building&nbsp;them in  rural areas, which happen to have an excess of animal waste.&nbsp;The heat  from a data center could be used to improve the process by which the  waste turns it into methane, which can be used in place of natural gas  or diesel, HP&#8217;s researchers maintain. &quot; <\/p>\n<p>&quot;&#8230; average dairy cow, &#8230; produces approximately 120  pounds of waste a day. It would take 10,000 cows to produce enough  energy for a data center big enough to support a bank.&nbsp; &quot;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Via:&nbsp;<\/strong> Fierce CIO <a title=\"Fierce CIO\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.fiercecio.com\/story\/cow-power-and-other-ideas-reducing-its-energy-costs\/2010-05-19?utm_medium=nl&amp;utm_source=internal\">LINK<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Data Centers are moving to rural areas where land and labor are less expensive.&nbsp; There are often farms and lots of cows &#8230; and therefore lots of cow manure. A significant cost of operating data centers is the electric bill. &quot; &#8230; Hewlett-Packard &#8230;simultaneously help dairy farmers get rid of cow manure and help data [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":754,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-577839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/754"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}