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2009

Google uncloaks once-secret server. Instead of a data centre wide UPS and redundant power supplies, each Google server has its own 12V battery. They live in standard shipping containers, each holding 1,160 servers.

# 2nd April 2009, 10:47 am / datacentres, google, operations, power, servers, ups

2008

Battery Statistics. Run “ioreg -w0 -l | grep Capacity” on a MacBook or MacBook Pro to find out the DesignCapacity (original) and MaxCapacity (current) of your laptop’s battery.

# 27th July 2008, 11:05 am / battery, capacity, corstencurdt, macbook, macbookpro, power

2007

As software architects, power consumption is now squarely in our camp to manage. There is plenty we can do to improve the quantity of power our data centers consume. [...] This is not just a hardware problem any longer.

Dan Pritchett

# 16th January 2007, 8:20 am / dan-pritchett, power