GigaOM has a post on the HP POD (Performance Optimized Data Center) – the Container Data Center.

Exclusive: First Look Inside the HP POD Data Centers

Stacey Higginbotham, Friday, September 26, 2008 at 6:17 PM PTComments (2)

I traveled down to Houston today to check out a data center geek’s version of paradise — the inside of the factory where HP builds their rack-mounted servers and high-value blade systems. I shot plenty of photos that show how a bunch of chips and boards gets assembled into a blade that I will put in a later post, but I also got to take a tour of the inside of HP’s containerized data center, known as a POD. “Tour” isn’t really the right word, since it’s hard to move around inside the 40-foot shipping container filled with racks, but it was pretty sweet to see all that processing power in one place.

Here is the video