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Data Center Day in Quincy
Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Jun 24 2010)
The farm town of Quincy, Washington has been the biggest beneficiary of the state legislature’s recent approval of targeted tax incentives for the data center industry. The measure, which provides a 15-month sales tax exemption on the purchase and installation of computers and energy for new data centers in 32 rural counties, was a key factor in Microsoft’s decision to begin construction on a second major data center in Quincy. On Monday the Port of Quincy hosted a special reception to celebrate the passage of the data center tax incentive legislation. Local officials and data center executives were joined by ...
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Rackforce builds a Green Data Center Stack with Cisco UCS Servers
Explore Article greenm3.com (Jun 10 2010)
I had the pleasure of spending 1 1/2 hrs chatting with Brian Fry VP of Sales and Marketing from RackForce and Kash Shaikh sr marketing manager of Cisco's Data Center Switch. There is no way I can capture all we talked about in one blog entry, so let's start with an overall approach that was refreshing and logical to see. I asked Brian Fry what led him to pick the Cisco UCS solution. The simple thing that Brian explained is he wanted the least amount of people to support using the least amount of power. Now if that isn't a ...
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In Iceland, Making Lemonade Out of Ash
Explore Article Light Reading (May 8 2010)
Iceland's reputation in the business community has taken its lumps in recent years, from the collapse of the country's economy in 2008 and nationalization of its three main banks to the recent massive global travel disruption caused by the ash cloud released by its Eyjafjallajallajökulashaker volcano. One US firm with major operations in Iceland is using the latest incident to bring new visibility to the country's unique capability for hosting remote data center operations that capitalize on Iceland's geo-thermal activity to provide a constant, renewable, and low-cost source of power.
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Are Washington State Taxes driving Data Center builders out of State?
Explore Article greenm3.com (Jan 12 2010)
Sabey Corporation has partnered with National Real Estate Advisors to form a new venture that will expand Sabey’s data center operations beyond its core market in the Pacific northwest, the companies said Thursday. The new company, Sabey DataCenter Properties, will include Sabey’s existing data center developments. NREA will have a minority equity interest and will invest $100 million, which will be used to support the current portfolio and finance growth in new markets. Where Sabey is going isn’t stated, but it’s not in the State of Washington. Sabey is not identifying any of the markets where it may eventually operate ...
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The next decade: Renewable Energy
Explore Article ABC7.com Green Content (Jan 5 2010)
The clock has just struck midnight on New Year’s Eve, 2020, and your rooftop cocktail party is in full swing. An urban garden, with potted evergreens and fruit trees, carpets the top of your downtown apartment building. The structure itself is vintage – a 1960’s brownstone that’s been retrofitted, by city-wide mandate. It operates on the new multi-source national electrical grid, which is supplied by wind, solar, geothermal power, as well as fossil fuels whose emissions are trapped underground. Rooftop Garden (Photo: Adpower99/Dreamstime.) In your apartment, appliances and plumbing fixtures are energy- and water-efficient – something you were able to ...
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Iceland: New Hot Spot for Data Centers?
Explore Article CIO.com (Nov 17 2009)
With data center costs on the rise, Jeff Monroe is always looking for a deal. The CEO of Verne Global, a wholesale data-center hosting company, has searched the world for places that offer cheap power, easy cooling and reliable communications. While energy costs in the United States are uncertain, Iceland, with its seemingly-unlimited renewable energy, cool temperatures and three (soon to be four) transoceanic cables fits the bill perfectly, he says. "We are finding those points on the Earth that are optimized for server operation—Iceland hits on all those points," says Monroe.
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Transcript: A Green Recovery
Explore Article Forbes.com (Nov 12 2009)
President Olafur Ragnar Grimsson believes green tech will transform Iceland and could do the same for the U.S. A Fundamental Change Well, first of all, let me say that if we hadn't become a green economy in terms of the energy sector in the last 30 or 40 years, we would have been hit much harder with our present economy crisis. When I was a kid in Iceland, over 80% of our entire energy needs came from imported energy, oil and coal. But the oil crisis in the 1970s made us change that in a fundamental way. So the end ...
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Wind Power Picks Up Speed at Other World Computing
Explore Article greenercomputing.com (Oct 27 2009)
With the installation of a 500 kilowatt wind turbine on its manufacturing facility, Other World Computing says it is the world's first 100 percent wind-powered IT company. The wind turbine will generate an estimated 1.2 million kilowatt-hours of energy per year, which is more than double the amount OWC says it needs to power its LEED Platinum facility and data center; as a result, the company will be sold back to its electric utility. Although the ROI on the project is a relatively long 10-14 years based on current energy costs, there are added reasons for investing, the company's CEO ...
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Sabey Addresses Tukwila Flood Concerns
Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Sep 22 2009)
Public officials in Tukwila, Wash. are preparing for potentially serious flooding in the Seattle suburb, but the owner of a major data center complex in town says its facilities are outside the threatened area. Sabey Corp., which operates the Intergate.East Technology Campus, says the development will remain “high and dry” in any flooding related to problems with the Howard Hanson dam. The dam was damaged during heavy rainfall last winter, prompting the Army Corps of Engineers to restrict water levels behind the dam. This will increase the volume of water in the Green River, raising the possibility that seasonal fall ...
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Twittered: Verne Global by Vertatique
Explore Article Vertatique (Sep 16 2009)
Location is becoming increasingly important to the Green Data Center marketplace. I've previously noted the popularity of the Columbia River Valley for mega data centers due to its inexpensive and low-carbon hydroelectricity, its temperate climate and water for cooling, and its fiber optic infrastructure. An Icelandic data center is now putting location front and center in its promotion. US company Verne Global cites what it calls the "Icelandic Advantage" of its data center:Comment on Article Mentions: Iceland Verne Global
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Top challenges to alternative energy
Explore Article Electrical Contractor (Sep 14 2009)
The various forms alternative energy generation share a number of problems. Cost tops the list, when compared to traditional fossil-fuel-based systems. It is assumed the price of basic equipment, such as solar panels and wind turbines, will drop once the market grows large enough so competition—promoted by expanded government subsidies—will stimulate research and economies of scale. However, other problems may be more difficult, though far from impossible, to solve. Two of the biggest are stabilizing and storing the energy produced by the sun and wind, and improving the process efficiency along the entire chain from initial production to final delivery ...
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Fixing Iceland
Explore Article Forbes.com (Aug 24 2009)
Johanna Sigurdardottir, Iceland's first female prime minister, has her hands full guiding the nation of 300,000 through economic turmoil. Johanna Sigurdardottir was elected as Prime Minister of Iceland in February. Her predecessor, Geir Haarde, lost electoral support as a direct result of the global financial crisis. The tiny nation of 300,000 nearly collapsed as its three largest banks were felled by $80 billion of debt, over six times the country's GDP. Since taking office, Sigurdardottir, 66, has been working vigorously to fix the broken banking system. Though her constituents are skeptical, she is promoting entry into the European Union and ...
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Giant Oyster machine waves in electricity
Explore Article Technology News (Aug 6 2009)
A new approach to harnessing the ocean's power for energy is getting some positive attention. The Oyster, a giant oscillating device developed by Aquamarine Power that uses hydraulic technology to convert wave power into electricity, won the "Innovator of 2009" award from Britain's Renewable Energy Association in June. Then on July 15 the Edinburgh, Scotland-based company was awarded 60 million pounds (over $101 million) by the U.K.'s Department of Energy and Climate Change to further develop its device. Now comes the that the Oyster is set to be installed and working at a test site by this fall, according Aquamarine ...
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British Columbia still committed to green power
Explore Article Reuters.com (Jul 31 2009)
British Columbia is still committed to promoting clean energy projects despite taking a blow on Tuesday from its own power utility regulator, the Canadian province's energy minister said in an interview with Reuters on Wednesday. Blair Lekstrom, British Columbia's minister of energy, mines and petroleum resources, said his government has not decided yet how it will respond to the regulator's rejection of parts of a business plan presented by government-owned power generator B.C. Hydro, including proposals to buy clean electricity from small, independent producers.
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Falling for hydro all over again by carol wilson
Explore Article Views and Opinions on Green IT (Jul 27 2009)
You can’t deny there’s a romantic ring to the idea that Niagara Falls will power Yahoo!’s next data center, being built in Lockport, N.Y. And while this is a recent development, hydroelectric power was the first renewable source of energy sought by those building data centers. The reasons are obvious – there’s nothing uncertain about hydroelectric power – its costs and benefits are well established, as is the technology that enables man to convert moving water into electricity. Before there was a major environmental push, major data center builders such as Google sought out river-side location for their largest operations, ...
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