2. Categories

      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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    1. “ We believe that for data centres, where the energy used to perform a function (e.g., cooling) is easily measured, efficiency standards should be performance-based, not prescriptive. ”

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  1. Google Leads Criticism Of Green Data Centre Rules

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    1. Google Leads Criticism Of Green Data Centre Rules A bid to impose efficiency standards on data centres has been met with resistance from a group of industry leaders, led by Google, who claim to represent most of the world’s most advanced data centre operators. Google, Microsoft and Nokia have all signed a blog post, which complains that a bid to extend a building efficiency standard to data centres will cause problems because it is “too prescriptive”. The ASHRAE 90.1 standard from building efficiency, from the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers, is to be applied to data centres - but the operators believe it will push specific technologies, instead of rewarding better results. (Read Full Article)

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