Big Data Under a Dome

I have had the pleasure to speak with Oregon Health and Science University design team whom developed the future of Data Centres and achieved reduced operating costs through geodesic technologies. Leveraging ambient air cooling, a unique air-flow design and airflow dynamics. 

This is all accomplished with NO air conditioning units, air ducts, heating systems, humidifiers, cooling systems or exhaust fans, found in a traditional data centre. The geodesic design also provides superior resistance to seismic events and is designed to shed snow or volcanic ash accumulations plus a PUE Power Usage Effectiveness rating of 1.13.

Their 18,000-square-foot data centre contains 10 mini data centers called “pods” arranged in a wheel and spoke configuration with a central hub. It will have ten times the capacity of their existing facility. At full capacity it could house thousands of data servers (computers) along with 100 petabytes of data (one petabyte is one million gigabytes).

These data centres are non-proprietary, which means any type of platform, infrastructure, hardware vendor, services and software can be catered for in comparison to current providers.

WOW, that takes Big Data Hosting to a new dimension !!! 

https://www.ohsu.edu/xd/about/initiatives/data-center-west.cfm