eBays Flagship Data Center in Utah Receives LEED Gold Certification

Web Host Industry Review (Nov 26 2010) Construction , Power and Cooling , Cloud Computing

1. Online auctioneer eBay (www.ebay.com) announced this week via its blog that its flagship data center in Salt Lake City, Utah has received LEED Gold certification from the US Green Building Council, according to a report by Datacenter Dynamics. The company opened the $287 million data center in May. As the company's first data center built from the ground up, the facility is used to host the eBay.com and Paypal.com websites. The LEED Gold certification recognizes the sustainability features eBay used in the design and the construction of its new Topez data center. In the blog post, eBay senior director of global data center strategy Dean Nelson writes that eBay's data centers comprise of more than 50 percent of its global power usage which makes "economical and ecological efficiency... a must". (Read Full Article)

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