Title

Solar-Powered Cloud Computing Datacenters

Author Info

Laura Hosman, Illinois Institute of TechnologyFollow
Bruce Baikie, Green WiFi

Recommended Citation

Postprint version. Published in IT Professional, Volume 15, Issue 2, April 1, 2013, pages 15-21.

NOTE: At the time of publication, the author Laura Hosman was not yet affiliated with Cal Poly.

The definitive version is available at https://doi.org/10.1109/MITP.2011.116.

Abstract

In the developing world, reliable and affordable electricity isn’t always available, presenting challenges for the Western “bigger is better” datacenter model. A small-scale, cloud computing datacenter, however, could leverage recent technological breakthroughs to instead rely on solar energy.

Copyright

2013 IEEE.

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