hello whitten,
when you talk of green data center, you will obviously expect the power consumption to come down. So, no doubt, there will be change in the cooling mechanisms (this is in relation to data center environment control). fuel cells will replace battery banks. you will not have to deal with acid leaks anymore. there are thoughts of automating the data center functioning. Automating aims at doing to the data center what SCADA does in the power system grids.
superconducting cables? :/ i understand that cooling is freely available but the equipments also generate a good amount of heat. noone would like it if data is disturbed when the systems start heating up and the cooling is malfunctioning for some reason. data is, after all, critical
Completely agree... visualization and green IT help to make lot of changes in data center. ICS SCADA networks and provides compliance, change management, network visualization, and protection against human errors, inside and outside threats.