Blade Servers are one of the most fascinating new technologies to be deployed within data centres. A Blade Server is a PCB based server typically housed in a rack mounting 1U high chassis. They are installed en masse and their combined effect in a rack cabinet is to provide a very cost effective square foot of computing power with one downside - the power they demand and the heat they generate - upto 15kW. This article from ZDNET describes some of the issues facing London data centres along these lines.

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