Intel Thinks Solar Could Power Data Centers

We are now in the information age. Data, converted to zeros and ones, moves through fiber optic cables and routes through servers. Almost every business has a data center, from a one person shop with a personal computer connecting to the Internet serving up a web page all the way to Google and their hundreds of thousands of CPUs crunching search algorithms or serving up data to the end user. Data centers are electricity hogs. They are always on and need to be constantly cooled so the CPUs don't fry. So why not use renewable energy to power these puppies and help offset some of the peak load from the coal burning power plant? Well Intel is banking on it. And Google has been researching alternative forms of power for their data centers since at least early last year. The information is not going to go away and as more countries and people begin to come "online" we are going to need even more data centers to facilitate the communication.