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Mobile Servers Save Energy, Add Capacity

Sun packages extra processing power in steel shipping containers

By Dustin Lushing,  Newser Staff

Posted Jun 22, 2007 5:30 PM CDT

(Newser) – Sun Microsystems has a solution for the booming demand for network space, and as a bonus, it lowers energy use: packing servers into steel shipping containers that can be parked wherever they're needed. It's called Project Blackbox, and Sun says it reduces power consumption by...   Read full story »

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