blackbox. underground.

Here are a few interesting articles about Sun Microsystems' new Blackbox project.

The first explains the concept/business model -- wherein companies can rent large remote server centers to save on the energy costs housing and managing their own servers would cost:

http://www.techworld.com/opsys/features/index.cfm?featureid=3435

The second (more interesting) article talks about Sun's plan to build an enormous data center for these blackboxes in an abandoned coal mine in Japan. This underground server facility could potentially save $9 million a year in cooling and electricity costs. And is more secure from tampering. Sounds a lot like a favorite book of mine.

http://www.techworld.com/green-it/news/index.cfm?newsID=10667