Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have created a working data centre which also functions as a research vehicle for the study of data centre automation and efficiency.

The principle research goals of the Data Centre Observatory (DCO) are to better comprehend and mitigate human administration costs and complexities, address power and cooling challenges, and study failures and their consequences.

It also aims to understand resource utilisation patterns, and look at opportunities to reduce costs by sharing resources among users.

The DCO can support 40 racks of computers, which would consume energy at a rate of 750 average-sized homes.

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Source: IT Week