Wyoming company on the disruptive edge of technology

I had heard a while ago that the former head of the Wyoming Technology Organization, Shawn Mills, left to found a ‘green data center’, GreenHouseData.  So I was very interested to read in an online article the other day, that Gartner — the premier analysts of all things technology — had declared green data centers to be one of their top 10 disruptive data center technologies of the future.

 Gartner makes a living by telling people in the high tech industry what has happened to them, what is happening to them, and what is likely to happen to them in the future.  And they’ve become enough of an institution that some of their predictions are self-fulfilling; Gartner says it’s gonna happen, so the industry says, “let’s chart a course in that direction.”

Anyway, Gartner recently held their 26th annual Data Center Conference in Las Vegas and, among the other events, published their top 10 disruptive list.  Green data centers made #10 on the list.  SearchDataCenter.com sited Gartner VP Carl Claunch as saying, “green IT comes down to one major issue: power and heat. [sic:  I think that makes two issues but hey, it’s a quote]  But there are two branches to this tree.  The first is the tactical branch: The fact that data centers are running out of power, cooling and space forces companies to re-engineer existing data centers or build facilities anew. The second branch — the corporate social responsibility branch — involves political issues. By making data centers more efficient, you expend less power and reduce carbon footprint and are more likely to be considered “green,” which has become the cool thing to be.  Having a greener, more efficient environment is part of the corporate responsibility model.”

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