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Industry thought-leaders all have personal to-do lists for what challenges and obstacles are in the way of creating energy efficient data centers. Until we can combine them all into a master list, here are four steps to get us well underway.
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The EPA today unveiled its new and long-awaited Energy Star certification for buildings that house data centers and stand-alone facilities, marking a big step forward for energy efficiency in high-tech environments.
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The online retailer's 240,000 square foot building will have a PUE of 1.4, and will use 50 percent less energy than the average of all the other data centers it leases around the globe.
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As part of the U.S. House of Representatives' "Greening the Capitol" project, a data center serving legislators' needs is running on one-quarter the energy it used just a year ago.
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Calling the connection between manure and computing a "symbiotic relationship," a new research paper from HP Labs outlines how a mid-sized dairy farm can power a one-megawatt data center.
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The winners of the Uptime Institute's Green Enterprise IT Awards range from data center intiatives from Hewlett Packard and the U.S. House of Representatives, as well as innovative projects from Microsoft, the city of Helsinki and others.
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From a chicken coop-based design in upstate New York to a LEED-certified facility in Israel, three new data centers show how big and green can coexist.
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From the Pacific Northwest to upstate New York, a number of states are putting considerable effort and money into getting companies to site their data centers within their borders.
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Google is as secretive as any large tech company about the nature of its data centers — how many, where they are, and what they’re made of — but that doesn’t stop the search giant from dishing out advice for everyone else’s data centers on how to cut energy use.
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The author of a new book on greening data centers talks about virtualization is changing the computing game, the challenges companies face with green IT, and why now is the best time to start embracing energy efficiency.
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With the annual hype of Earth Day accelerated by the big 40th anniversary, it's high time to look at how data centers have gotten far ahead of the rest of the enterprise when it comes to going green.
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The company's senior vice president of operations took aim at new standards from ASHRAE, saying that while efficiency requirements should be set, groups shouldn't dictate how data centers achieve it.
by David Neal
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Fannie Mae's 247,000 square foot data center, which was the first certified by the U.S. Green Building Council in 2005, has saved the agency $1.7 million in energy use.
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During the opening day of the three-day green event in Birmingham, Alan Beresford outlined how companies can cut their data center cooling down to size.
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The 100-year-old technology company has announced a shift of focus to environmental technologies and businesses, from green data centers to hybrid vehicles, as a way to revive its flagging revenue.
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At the Fortune Brainstorm Green conference this week, two Dell executives explained how the steady march of technology has made the need for new computing facilities a thing of the past.
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Greenstone Carbon Management this week laid out the steps that IT professionals can use to put technology to work on meeting legislative requirements for carbon emissions, while also cutting costs from energy used across the enterprise.
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Hewlett Packard's Wynyard data center in Stockton, U.K., has turned an old transport warehouse into a supersized, super-green computing facilty -- one the company says is the world's greenest.
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The Green Grid today announced a global effort to develop an Energy Star-like rating for data center energy efficiency, using its popular power usage effectiveness ratio as the benchmark for green data centers.
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Virtualization, a companywide PC upgrade and strict e-waste policies are some of the moved that combined to propel Citi to the top of "America's Greenest Banks," a new list compiled for the first time by Bank Technology News.
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A new specialized green IT certification exam from CompTIA grades IT workers on familiarity with the latest energy efficient practices.
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The ongoing move to online storage of all things digital signals a huge growth in energy-sucking data centers, and there's a huge gap between what companies currently do with energy efficiency and making computing facilities truly green.
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At an event yesterday in New York, the global shipping giant detailed how technology is helping it cut costs and reduce emissions -- all while delivering your packages in ever-more-efficient ways.
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The insurance compnay's new 50,000-square-foot facility combined energy-efficient IT hardware, a white roof to reflect heat, and other green technologies to earn the USGBC's second-highest green rating.
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The copmany's new Intelligent Network Data Enterprise will bring a new level of control to the millions of new data points companies must track with smart grid projects; the tool aims to speed the adoption of smart grids worldwide.