Microsoft server trucks powered by wind turbines

Microsoft will fill an entire floor in a new Chicago data center with freight vans in which servers are tightly packed. According to the latest information , the company was able to pack 300,000 servers in containers on the same floor. In the container, the density of equipment in terms of power was increased from the standard for data centers 4300-4800 watts per square meter. meters to 13 000 watts per square. meter. Theoretically, such mobile "mini data centers" can be installed in any suitable place where there is an Internet access channel and electricity. For Microsoft, this is very important, because it is now concerned about the construction of data centers around the world .



Although they need a lot of electricity, Microsoft proudly declares that new trucks with servers are powered exclusively by wind generators. Of course, windmills do not connect to them directly, but are located hundreds of kilometers from the data center, and the energy from them goes into the overall power supply system. But Microsoft bought the full quota for the required amount of electricity from the owner of wind turbines (in America, a special state program operates for this), so formally its data center is powered exclusively by wind turbines.

Perhaps in the future such cargo containers will be placed at least in a clean field near wind power stations, or they will immediately be bundled with wind turbines. True, to get a power of 100 megawatts, wind turbines will need a lot. However, instead of wind turbines, you can use solar panels, and then with appropriate cooling, mobile data centers can be quickly deployed even in the Persian Gulf (they are building a digital island connected to the world with powerful fiber).