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There's wide hope that world leaders can significantly advance a global commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and minimize changes to our climate. With such a commitment and the right technology tools, a clean and prosperous future can be well within our reach.
by Rob Bernard
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IBM and the state of New York have helped Syracuse University build a data center that will use 50 percent less energy than typical data centers and operate completely off the grid.<br />
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Telehouse West data center in east London will pipe waste heat to nearby homes and businesses.
by Tom Young
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AT&T has established a corporate post for a director of energy to take the reins of the firm's energy management drive -- and named its first appointee to the job.
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At the Gartner Data Center Conference today, IBM highlighted the technologies that go into the company's Portable Modular Data Center, and showed how the energy-efficient computing center can be applied to a range of companies and locations.
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The IT and telecom industries have stepped up a lobbying effort for energy-efficient IT projects to be included in an expanded Clean Development Mechanism.
by Tom Young
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Canada's Advanced Research and Innovation Network has announced $2.4 million in funding that it will spread over four projects aimed at developing an internet network powered by renewable energy, an ultra-efficient data center and more.
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With adoption of voluntary best practices lagging in the U.K. and Europe, some industry watchers think new laws and regulations are what's needed to drive laggards to green IT.
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At the Supercomputing 2009 conferencing this week, Iceotope unveiled a new technology to allow servers to be cooled by immersion in water, a new design that the company estimates could cut energy used to cool data centers by as much as 93 percent.
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To further spread the adoption and refinement of best practices for data center construction and operation, the IT industry consortium plans to launch a free guide early next year highlighting how to cut costs and boost performance in facilities of all sizes.
by James Murray
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The technologies that made IBM's list of its top five green innovations in the past year -- and what didn't make that list -- highlight the shift that Big Blue is making toward the green.
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Six months after opening its latest green facility, Fortune Data Centers has become one of a very small number of LEED-rated data centers; internet phenomenon Facebook also confirmed that it was one of the facility's new tenants.
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As part of a partnership with The Green Grid, the U.S. EPA made a number of small tweaks to how it managed one of its data centers, and ended up saving $15,000 per year in energy costs as a result.
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With an ever-increasing number of firms realizing the cost and environmental benefits of green IT programs, the best way to get started may be an organizational assessment of your needs and capabilities, according to a new report from Forrester Research.
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With the installation of a 500 kilowatt wind turbine on its manufacturing facility, Other World Computing says it is the world's first 100 percent wind-powered IT company.
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With the installation of a 500-kilowatt wind turbine on its manufacturing facility, Other World Computing says it is the world's first 100 percent wind-powered IT company.
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A survey of data center managers and IT professionals at the latest Data Center World conference finds widespread adoption of some green technologies, while others are just about to round the bend into mainstream usage.
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A new report from the IT industry consortium looks at how significantly the many European policies -- both currently in place and forthcoming -- can affect data center operators.
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The company behind the oldest PC power management software has unveiled a new program that aims to apply smart energy-use principles to servers, and can potentially save on billions of dollars of wasted energy use.
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Wells Fargo & Company is upping the ante on its environmental commitments by targeting a 20 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2018, based on 2008 levels.
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The storage provider this week unveiled a line of new software products that aim to cut costs of storage hardware refreshes while boosting storage capacity and increasing overall data center efficiency.
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As part of a study of the automaker's 20,000 square foot data center over five months, using IBM measurement and management technologies cut cooling needs by 30 percent and resulted in smarter energy use in the facility.
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Working with data center virtualization firm INX, the city of Walnut Creek has cut energy use and earn a rebate from its electric utility company for consolidating its servers and moving to energy-efficient IT hardware.
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A new list looks at the best locations around the globe for new computing facilities, based on a confluence of factors. Which of them is the best and the greenest?
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In addition to making companies and IT managers more proactive on energy efficiency as a savings driver, the Great Recession is bringing to light the environmental and economic benefits of extending the life of IT hardware as long as possible.