Video: The Eco-Friendly Sun Modular Datacenter S20 (Project Blackbox)

June 4, 2008 — (GREEN DATA CENTER INFO) — The Sun MD makes good sense ecologically and economically. It can help reduce CO2 emissions by over 1459 metric tons per platform over a five year deployment, which can help businesses meet new, more stringent environmental regulations.

Thanks to its unique closed-loop water cooling system, the Sun MD is more than 40% more energy efficient at cooling than a typical datacenter. With high efficiency water cooling in a small enclosed area, much less energy is consumed per compute unit than in an air-conditioned datacenter. Energy costs can be reduced even more by locating the unit near less expensive power sources.

Because of its commitment to eco responsibility and reducing eWaste, Sun Microsystems will take back any unit and its contents, from anywhere in the world, and reuse, recycle or dispose of it in an environmentally responsible way.

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