In August it applied for a patent for water-based data centres.
八月份它申请了一项水上数据中心的专利。
So will all data centres end up in remote places like Quincy or Iceland?
这是否意味着所有的数据中心都要去昆西或冰岛那样遥远的地方？
Firms with excess computing capacity, such as data centres, put it up for sale.
诸如数据中心之类的公司将额外的计算能力拿来出售。
The largest data centres now rival aluminium smelters in the energy they consume.
最大的数据中心所消耗的能量可以和炼铝厂的能耗相匹敌。
Facebook's data are constantly replicated among multiple drives and data centres.
Facebook的数据在繁多的硬盘和数据中心不停地复制。
So IDC thinks that many data centres will be consolidated and given a big makeover.
所以IDC认为很多数据中心将被整合而且迎来一次彻底改变。
The corollary ofmore computing in the sky is more and bigger data centres on earth.
空中计算越广泛地被运用，代表着需要建立更多更大的数据中心。
It is becoming more centralised again as some of the activity moves into data centres.
随着数据中心承担更多任务，计算正再次集中化。
By locating their servers at exchanges or in adjacent data centres traders can maximise speed.
在交易所或者在临近的信息中心放置自己的服务器则能够使交易商的速度最大化。
They will, after all, be out of a job if companies no longer maintain their own big data centres.
如果公司不再需要维护大型数据中心，这些主管们终将失业。
Companies are increasingly storing proprietary data offsite, in a scattered "cloud" of data centres.
企业逐渐在办公场地之外、在一些零散的“云”计算数据中心，存储公司专有数据。
This number is approaching 90,000 for Amazon’s data centres on America’s East Coast alone (see chart).
仅美国东海岸一处，这一数字就接近9万个。
Cloud providers, he says, have more expertise in running data centres and benefit from a larger infrastructure.
他说，云的提供商们拥有运营数据中心的技术，还可以从更大的基础架构中获得规模效益。
An underwater cable linking West Africa's computers to Europe's data centres is due to come ashore in South Africa.
连接西非与欧洲数据中心的海底光缆预期将会在南非上岸。
The criteria that companies use to pick a site keep evolving, says Mike Manos, Microsoft's director of data centres.
微软数据中心主管迈克·马囊斯(Mike Manos)说，公司选择场所的标准也在逐渐改变。
It has built a network of data centres, and is starting to gain traction after losing billions developing online services.
Microsoft已经建立了一个数据中心网络，在经历开发网络服务亏损十亿以上之后，也开始取得一些成绩。
Similarly, most corporate data centres today house armies of "systems administrators", the craftsmen of the information age.
与之类似，今天大部分数据中心都有一群“系统管理员”，他们是信息时代的工匠。
Although PCs, mobile phones and networks will account for most (56%) of this, emissions from data centres will grow the fastest.
虽然个人电脑、手机和网络是主要排放源(约排放56%的废气)，数据中心的排放量增长却最快。
According to IDC, a market-research firm, a quarter of corporate data centres in America have run out of space for more servers.
市场调查公司IDC的调查显示，四分之一的美国数据中心已经无处安置新的服务器。
As servers become more numerous, powerful and densely packed, more energy is needed to keep the data centres at room temperature.
随着服务器数量的增多、功能的增强和放置的集中，这就需要更多的能源来使数据中心保持室温。
A team from HP Labs has shown that methane produced from cows could be used to support data centres requiring vast amounts of energy.
来自惠普实验室的一个工作小组提出了一种新的观点：奶牛所制造的沼气能够被用于提供数据中心对能源的大量需求。
Although hardware stays in one place, "virtual machines" consuming processing power can jump around, even between far-flung data centres.
虽然硬件呆在一个地方静止不动，“虚拟机”消耗的处理能力却能跳来跳去，甚或在遥远的数据中心之间来去自如。
Amazon Web Services (AWS), which rents computing capacity in its giant data centres to customers, has also won a reputation for being cheap.
亚马逊网络服务(aws)同样也因为低价获得了声誉，顾客可以通过这一服务租用亚马逊巨型数据中心的计算能力。
As data centres require ever more power to operate, they're increasingly being located near existing power generation or cooling resources.
由于数据中心的运作需要大量的能量，现在越来越多的数据中心被设立在已有的发电厂或冷却资源附近。
The other is software that helps firms to turn their IT infrastructure into their own cloud, known as a “virtual operating system for data centres”.
还有软件层以帮助企业把IT基础架构变成自己的云，也就是“数据中心的虚拟操作系统”。
One study by Brown, commissioned by the us environmental protection agency, suggested that us data centres used 61bn kilowatt hours of energy in 2006.
据Brown的一项美国环保局授权的研究表明，美国数据中心2006年度消耗610亿度电。
Google is said to be operating a global network of about three dozen data centres loaded with more than 2m servers (although it will not confirm this).
Google据称运营着全球超过两百万台服务器的三十几个数据中心网络(尽管Google不愿意承认)。
Yet it lingered in obscurity until VMware, now one of the world's biggest software firms, applied it to the commodity computers in today's data centres.
之后虚拟化技术一直在暗处徘徊，直到世界上最大的软件公司之一VMware把它应用到今天的数据中心里的计算机上。
Although it operates data centres of its own, it outsources much of its computing to Amazon Web Services, the cloud-computing arm of the online shopping giant.
虽然Zynga的数据中心由自己运营，但是其大多数的计算任务都外包给了亚马逊（Amazon）的网络服务部门，该部门是这家网上书店巨头用以提供云计算服务的。
Although it operates data centres of its own, it outsources much of its computing to Amazon Web Services, the cloud-computing arm of the online shopping giant.
虽然Zynga的数据中心由自己运营，但是其大多数的计算任务都外包给了亚马逊（Amazon）的网络服务部门，该部门是这家网上书店巨头用以提供云计算服务的。
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