Smaller is almost always better, the sages among us sometimes say. This was the case when a facility near St. Louis run by Schneider Electric and its American Power Conversion subsidiary created a new data center, using a little common knowledge to make it better, faster and smaller. This data center is now a mostly empty building. And it was used as a test bed to show IT managers how to reconfigure their own data centers. Chances are that most IT executives are working with an over-sized and inefficient facility.

For more on developing smaller data centers:
- See this Baseline.com article [1]

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