LEED Gold for NTT America Ashburn Site

Data Center Knowledge (Sep 23 2009) Construction , Carbon Footprint , Cloud Computing

1. The NTT America data center in Ashburn, Virginia has earned a LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Gold Certification, the company said today. LEED is a voluntary rating system for energy efficient buildings overseen by the US Green Building Council (USGBC). The NTT America facility is the latest in a small but growing number of data centers that have gained LEED certification. The LEED standard was designed for commercial office buildings, but a coalition of data center industry groups has released a draft of an energy-efficiency standard to expand the program with customized specs for data centers. (Read Full Article)

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