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    1. Oracle UK To Open Dedicated G-Cloud Data Centre

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      Oracle UK To Open Dedicated G-Cloud Data Centre

      Oracle is launching a new UK data centre entirely for government contracts in the G-Cloud, hosting applications delivered by both Oracle and its partners. The data centre will be in the Thames Valley and will comply with the IL3 security specification, a government requirement for this type of work. It joins Oracle’s general purpose data centre in Linlithgow, and follows an announcement of a UK data centre from rival Salesforce . Although Oracle would not say where it is, or how big it is, chief operating officer Mark Hurd promised the facility would open in June.

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    2. VMware: OpenStack Is Not A Competitor – But Cloud Needs Standards

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      VMware: OpenStack Is Not A Competitor – But Cloud Needs Standards

      There is no competition between VMware and OpenStack – the leading open source cloud implementation - despite recent reports that customers are moving away from the vCloud to OpenStack, according to VMware’s chief technologies in EMEA, Joe Baguley. While OpenStack provides an open source cloud stack, it works perfectly well with VMware’s vSphere, and VMware is an OpenStack supporter.

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    5. Facebook To Open $300m Iowa Data Centre

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      Facebook To Open $300m Iowa Data Centre

      Facebook is to invest $299.5 million (£196m) in the first phase of an efficient data centre on a site in Iowa where a new facility has been rumoured for some time. The data centre at Altoona, Iowa, will make use of Iowa’s extensive wind-powered electricity, and was announced on a blog post by Jay Parikh, Facebook’s vice president of infrastructure engineering. It will use Facebook’s own implementation of the Open Compute design of stripped down, low-energy servers.

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    6. Google Gets Green Tariff For Data Centre Energy

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      Google Gets Green Tariff For Data Centre Energy

      Google is expanding its North Carolina data centre, and heading off protest at the emissions caused by its electricity use by setting up a renewable energy tariff with its utility company. As part of a $600 million (£394m) expansion of the data centre, Google is making a new agreement with its electricity provider, Duke Energy, to pay extra for its power through a tariff which channels the money to specific renewable energy projects run by Duke. 

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    7. Facebook Data Centres Publish Real-Time Green Data

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      Facebook Data Centres Publish Real-Time Green Data

      Facebook has published data centre efficiency figures on real-time dashboards for two of its data centres in Prineville Oregon and Forest City North Carolina. Its Lulea, Sweden facility will soon follow. The move is a response to criticism of Facebook’s energy usage, and a means to publicise its involvement in moves to improve data centre efficiency, such as the Open Compute Project. The two data centres have very creditable PUE (Power Usage Effectiveness) ratings of 1.09 and 1.10, according to the dashboards, which show data with a 2.5-hour delay. The dashboards also display another environmental measure – the centres’ water usage.

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    10. Liquid Gas Plants Could Power Data Centres For Nothing

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      Liquid Gas Plants Could Power Data Centres For Nothing

      An ingenious proposal to locate data centres near liquid natural gas (LNG) plants could provide all their cooling and electrical power for nothing – and the group behind it hopes to interest European providers in the concept. Natural gas storage plants produce excess refrigeration, and waste enough energy to run a data centre according to TeraCool. 

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    15. Do Data Centres Need A Fracking Dash For Shale Gas?

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      Do Data Centres Need A Fracking Dash For Shale Gas?

      The data centre industry might be feeling heartened by the Chancellor’s introduction of measures to support the fracking of shale gas in today’s Budget. Earlier this week, a report from 451 Research suggested that US leadership in that field might result in cloud facilities going to America, where cheap shale gas will keep energy cheaper.

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    17. Europe’s Data Centres Hit By US Shale Gas Prices

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      Europe’s Data Centres Hit By US Shale Gas Prices

      Data centres could move from Europe to the US, thanks to low cost energy from shale gas, according to research from 451 Research. Cheaper energy could also dampen interest in efficiency measures for large cloud data centres, the report warns. The US will have cheap electricity and prices will be stable for some time, thanks to the large-scale exploitation of shale gas. This means that data centres, which can use several megawatts of electric power, will be cheaper to run in America. 

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    21. Rackspace Plans New UK Data Centre And Adopts Open Compute

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      Rackspace Plans New UK Data Centre And Adopts Open Compute

      Cloud hosting firm Rackspace is planning a new UK data centre, and has adopted the Open Compute specifications to design its own low-energy, no-frills hardware for all future servers. The cloud provider’s new UK data centre will be built by Digital Realty, and include up to five data halls using up to 10Mw of power in total, but no location has been decided yet, according to information filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

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    22. IT Life: Going Nuts For The Network

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      IT Life: Going Nuts For The Network

      David Barker set up 4D in 1999 , when he was 14. It started life as a domain registration and hosting business. The firm started out with £30 and turned over £3000 in its first year, which rose to £36,500 by 2002/3. In 2002, at 17, David left school to go full time, and 4D branched out into hosting, offering dedicated servers and subleasing space in Docklands and Heathrow for larger clients.

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    23. Green Grid Advocates Using Eco-Mode For Data Centre UPS

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      Green Grid Advocates Using Eco-Mode For Data Centre UPS

      The Green Grid has claimed data centres can improve efficiency, and save money, by using the Eco-Mode of their uninterruptible power supply (UPS) and rely more on their utility grid. A data centre using 1MWatt of electric power can save around $100,000 a year, and increase its efficiency rating, by altering the settings of the UPS, which provides battery power when the utility grid cuts out, the Green Grid said in a detailed White Paper.

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