nbc's leanne greg reports from colorado springs. >> reporter: this holiday season a purchase is never more than a click away. before it gets to a hub like this for scanning and sorting, everything about the package, its size, origination, desty fashion, the best way to get it there, moves through a complex information highway. data center. >> this is the enterprise data center for fedex. >> reporter: a mothership of information, servers connected by miles of fiber optics and manages it requires a unique approach. servers get hot and are costly to cool. of the company's 16 data centers around the world this is the newest, described as a model for the future of efficiency. >> we're taking advantage of the latest technology which means we're able to do a whole lot more for a whole lot less. >> reporter: the same processing capability as the data center it replaced about a quarter to a third less infrastructure resulting in lower energy costs. >> almost all of the power and energy that this facility consumes was designed to provide power to the servers themselves. >> reporter: one of the

leann greg, nbc news, denver. >> certainly cold there. back here in the bay area fire crews trying to get ahold of a man who lived in a mobile home that burned to the ground overnight. it happened at the casa alondra mobile home park near monterey and blossom hill road. that fire broke out about 2:00 this morning. crews had it under control within an hour, but a few hours ago crews finally completed their entire search of the home and there was no sign of the homeowner that he was there at the time of the fire. >>> here's renewed hope this morning that a missing san jose pilot and his family will be found safe. dale smith was flying his single engine plane from baker city, oregon, to butte, montana, sunday when he reported engine failure over central idaho. smith's daughter, her fiance, as well as her son and daughter-in-law were on board. certaining for the plane yesterday, authorities say they picked up the signal of the plane's emergency beacon. it was in a different area than where the last cell phone ping came from. this suggests som

joining me from a snowy denver, colorado, nbc's leann greg.sy to get around. there were other impacts, including on the crops in california, the orange groves. what is the trajectory now of the storm? >> that's right, andrea. well, right now it is 8 degrees here in denver. those temperatures will plummet to subzero later this afternoon. the snow is continuing to fall. that's expected to diminish, but the temperatures won't get out of the teens until later this weekend. to the west of us in the mountains, it is a snow event, possibly up to two feet of snow, but really the story is about the frigid cold temperatures. dangerously cold. yesterday it was close to 50 degrees warmer in the denver metro area. it's been a huge jolt any time you get to subzero temperatures, but especially now. yes, the impact is being felt across the region. more than 30 million people affected in 25 different states from coast to coast. you mentioned the citrus growers concerned about what this cold snap will do to the crops. many still on the vine. as far as transport