Equinix CTO 10 year perspective, data center changes in highly connected Internet services

from greenm3.com:

>>I had the pleasure of interviewing Equinix's CTO David Pickut as part of Equinix reaching its 50th data center.

The perspective I was looking for is David's view of the past 10 years and what the future looks like. Over the past 10 years, Dave has seen three big changes in data centers.

1. Energy density in racks has gone up.
2. Energy Efficiency awareness has increased.
3. Transition from stand alone data center mindset to highly connected data centers.

This is best illustrated by drawings David provided. Here is what data centers looked like 10 years ago.

And this is what data center design looks like it 2010

Note in the upper left of each of these slides the external forces affecting data centers. This is proof I was looking for that Equinix is on the right path to Green (low carbon) Data Centers.

The mass media industry will cover Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Apple data centers. But, here is a simple way to understand the future of data centers. David and I chatted about many more things regarding the future 10 years, and he said it is easy to build energy efficient cost effective data centers. The hard part is accounting for the accelerating rate of external factors that now affect data center design.