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Data Center Design:
Construction,
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Data Center Outages,
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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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“ We're power hogs -- we own and operate data centers -- it's unkind to the environment. ”
By Rich Dolan
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Datapipe Completes Transition to 100% Green-Powered Data Centers
GreenBiz.com (Mar 9 2011) Cloud Computing , Servers
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When you're running a data center, especially one that specializes in cloud computing applications, there are some green practices that are just inevitable. Buying energy-efficient servers, for example, or virtualizing those servers as much as possible.
Running that data center on renewable energy, however, is not one an example of low-hanging fruit. But cloud service provider Datapipe yesterday announced that it had completed a year-long project to get all three of its U.S. data centers powered entirely by renewables.
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