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Cool water from the Gulf of Finland will take the heat off of Google's servers.
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The National Center for Atmospheric Research -- the folks who do climate modeling, among many other things -- is in the final stages of building a new supercomputing facility that points the way forward for green data centers of all stripes.
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The IT industry group is trying to standardize and increase the reliability of data center energy efficiency standards by issuing detailed guidelines for how to measure and report Power Usage Effectiveness.
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The company has created a new type of modular structure designed to cut the costs and deployment times of powering corporate data centers, designed to take up just four parking spots' worth of space.
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For all the forward-looking solutions on offer, and just on the horizon, at the kickoff of the Uptime Institute's annual Symposium this week, there are a number of very old problems that remain to be solved.
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The awards handed out in advance of the Uptime Institute's annual Symposium ran the gamut from highly efficient data center systems to innovations in reusing waste heat from compute facilities.
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Raritan unveils a new customizable dashboard and other tools to rein in energy use in data centers during Uptime Institute’s annual spring symposium.
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The convergence of the two historically siloed departments comes as the major IT-industry players -- IBM, SAP, Cisco and Accenture, among others -- have strengthened their offerings to align corporate sustainaibility and financial goals.
by Chip Pieper
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While Facebook talks a good game about energy efficiency and its in-house green efforts, Greenpeace has steadily taken the company to task about relying on coal to power the world's most popular website.
by Marc Gunther
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The company has unveiled its new Containerized Data Center solution, offering a highly energy efficient and modular system that can be quickly installed with hardware from Cisco or other companies.
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Green IT comes in many forms, from making data centers more efficient to printing less to replacing physical meetings with virtual meet-ups.
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Just over six months after a law went into effect prioritizing IT energy efficiency in the state, California's offices have saved enough energy to power 2,000 homes for a year.
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A new report from the nonprofit concludes much of the cloud is powered with dirty energy sources by companies that often fail to disclose how much energy they use,
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Green IT initiatives have tended to be middle-range priorities for companies, but that's changing, especially with IT's growing role in helping businesses manage energy use in their buildings and facilities, according to a recent survey of executives in the U.S., U.K. and Germany.
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Dr. Bob Sullivan, the pioneer of hot-aisle and cold-aisle data center cooling, talks about how a simple invention for using outside air in HVAC systems can turn conventional cooling on its ear.
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Schneider Electric has acquired Lee Technologies of Fairfax, Va., in a move that is expected to buttress Schneider's formidable business in data centers by bringing in a firm that specializes in providing services for the facilities.
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The U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General plans to consolidate four of its data centers into a single, energy-efficient facility that will be built in 10 months.
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Facebook's Open Compute Project will allow the IT industry to access the design secrets behind the social network's new data center in Prineville, Ore., which the company says uses 38 percent less power than existing server farms.
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A new report from Fujitsu surveys four countries' maturity of green IT practices -- from responsible procurement to applying IT to larger sustainability goals -- and finds the U.K. leading the pack, though all countries show room for improvement.
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The environmental group has released its latest video in a campaign to get Facebook to embrace clean energy, targeting the company's data centers in Oregon and North Carolina as pollution sources while suggesting how the social network can change course.
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Two of the world's biggest cloud computing providers talk about the impacts of all those servers, what can be done to make everyone greener online, and how the future of the data center is getting rid of the data center.
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Hewlett-Packard this morning has announced a new suite of software and services that aim to give the firm a foothold in the crowded and growing market for enterprise carbon and energy management software; Hara is a key first partner for the project.
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The global data center services provider announced that all of its U.S.-based facilities are now completely powered by renewable energy.
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At its annual Technical Forum, the industry sustainability group continued to expand on its widely adopted Power Usage Effectiveness formula to include water efficiency, reuse of energy within facilities, and others.
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A recent issue of the Journal of Industrial Ecology takes on real-world implementations of green IT, showing how technology can make everything from manufacturing to irrigation to the government more efficient.