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Categories
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Data Center Design:
Construction,
Container,
Data Center Outages,
Monitoring,
Power and Cooling
Policy: Cap and Trade, Carbon Footprint, Carbon Reduction Commitment, Carbon Tax, Emissions
Power: Biomass, Fossil Fuel, Fuel Cell, Geothermal, Hydro, Nuclear, Solar, Wind
Application: Cloud Computing, Grid Computing
Technology: Microblogging, Networking, Servers, Storage, Supercomputer
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Put Your Data Center through Its ABCs
Relocate (Jun 15 2010) Cloud Computing , Servers
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Without a doubt, making data centers greener makes sense, not just for the company’s financial coffers but also in terms of environmental impact.
The widely used definition of a "greenness" states that a data center is green if it is designed for maximum energy efficiency and minimum environmental impact. Such a data center will also ensure that it invests time and money in systems and techniques that will lead to minimization of the building's footprint. These systems and technques could encompass landscaping, waste recycling, alternative fuel or energy sources, managing or optimizing power flows through the data center, and so on.
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