SUN's new 'Datacentre in a Box'
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an all-weather, indoor/outdoor, instant-on, datacentre inside a shipping container.

It's a simply briliant design - it uses less power, much less space and it's fully recycable and refurbishable, with a commitment from Sun for responsible disposal.

Now they should publish the design as an open standard of some sort, to encourage everyone to make these things so you don't have to be a Sun shop to reap the benefits.

• Project Blackbox will give customers the flexibility to move applications to optimal locations to take advantage of lower energy rates, avoid power outages, and tap cheaper, greener energy.
• Customers who select a configuration with the Sun Fire CoolThreads technology-based servers will save about $1,000 a year per Sun Fire T2000 or Sun Fire T1000 server in energy costs, in addition to cost savings provided by the container's cooling advantage over existing datacenter implementations.
• Sun will extend its electronic waste and hazardous material leadership by taking back Project Blackbox containers and their systems for upgrading, reuse, recycling, or responsible disposal.