Facebook turns on hydroelectric data center in Sweden
The social network's first data center in Europe runs on hydropower. What does Greenpeace say?
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25 photos and a video of Facebook's Lulea Data Center
Read Full ArticleOn Facebook's Lulea page you can see 25 photos of its data center. Here is video too.
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Inside Facebook’s New Lulea Data Center
Read Full ArticleFacebook says its new data center in Lulea, Sweden is the most efficient and sustainable. For a closer look, check out our photo feature, Inside Facebook's Lulea Data Center.
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Live in Lulea: Facebook Goes Global and Gets Greener
Read Full ArticleFacebook has gone live in Lulea. The company's huge new data center in Sweden is now handling traffic from around the world, marking the first expansion of Facebook's infrastructure beyond the Untied States.
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As Faceboook Lulea powers up, makes sure its neighbors don't put infrastructure at risk
Read Full ArticlePart of what a big data center company like Google and Microsoft have learned to expect is that neighbors show up after they are the first to build. Facebook going to Lulea was one of the first data center operators in the area. And now that there are others looking at Lulea and Facebook is going through commissioning, there are concerns there is enough infrastructure.
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The Billion Dollar Data Centers
Read Full ArticleYour iTunes downloads, Facebook posts and YouTube videos travel through small rural communities that are home to billion-dollar data centers from the world's largest cloud builders. Here's a look at these facilities and how they're changing these communities.
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The Billion Dollar Data Centers
Read Full ArticleYour iTunes downloads, Facebook posts and YouTube videos travel through small rural communities that are home to billion-dollar data centers from the world's largest cloud builders. Here's a look at these facilities and how they're changing these communities.
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Yahoo Building a Bigger Computing Coop
Read Full ArticleYahoo's ultra-efficient "chicken coop" data center in upstate New York is getting bigger. The Internet company has announced plans to invest an additional $168 million in the campus for its hydro-powered, wind-cooled server farm.
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A Norwegian startup launches its green data center services
Read Full ArticlePUE is a ratio of the power used to run a data center's IT and servers versus the power for running the entire data center. The measurement is one of the more common metrics for determining a data center's energy efficiency. Germany is the big target market
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Europe’s Data Centres Hit By US Shale Gas Prices
Read Full ArticleData 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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Facebook’s New Data Center in the “Node Pole”
Read Full ArticleFew would have guessed that Internet giant Facebook would place its European data center in a small Swedish city only 60 miles from the Arctic Circle. But, the city of Lulea and its surrounding area is now becoming “The Node Pole”—a veritable hotbed for data centers and high-tech industry.
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Peer 1 Saves With Evaporative Data Centre Cooling
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Peer 1 Saves With Evaporative Data Centre Cooling
Read Full ArticleInternational web hosting provider Peer 1 has saved 85 percent of the data centre cooling bill for its Portsmouth facility by using an evaporative system from the UK’s ExCool. The units use water evaporation to keep the new data centre cool even when the outside air temperature is as high as 34C, so Peer 1 does not need to use more wasteful mechanical chillers. The data centre has been open since February, and results so far suggest the company could get down to a record PUE efficiency score of 1.035. It’s ExCool’s first data centre installation in Europe.
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Data Centre Information Is Power
Read Full ArticleYou have to hand it to Schneider Electric’s marketing department. The power supply company has started an initiative to gather information about data centre energy use. Now that doesn’t sound all that exciting – so they’ve called it the Data Centre Genome Project.
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Data Centre Information Is Power
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A Hyper-Scale Cloud Data Center, Seen From the Clouds
Read Full ArticleWhat does a cloud data center look like, when viewed from the clouds? The massive expanse of the new Facebook data center in Lulea, Sweden is on display is this aerial video.
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Ocean Energy: Eaton To Help Develop Utility-Scale Underwater Power For Navy
Read Full ArticleWill tidal power generation ocean ever be harnessed to provide electricity for data centers? There have been a number of projects hoping to tap power from tidal energy or surface waves, but none have advanced very far. Now a leading player in data center power is participating in a promising project to make ocean power a reality. Eaton said recently that it will help develop an underwater, utility-scale energy generation system for the U. S. Navy. Built for the Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC), Eaton will collaborate with Eclipse Group and Triton Energy Systems on the initiative.
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Yahoo Buying Land Near Buffalo Data Center
Read Full ArticleIs the server-filled "chicken coop" ready to expand? Yahoo will purchase an additional 14 acres of land in an industrial park next to its existing data center in Lockport, New York, according to local media. The post Yahoo Buying Land Near Buffalo Data Center appeared first on Data Center Knowledge.
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Amid Scrutiny, Cleaner Generators Arrive in Quincy
Read Full ArticleIt’s been barely a week since diesel generator emissions in Quincy, Wash. made the front page of the New York Times. That might not seem to be the best moment to announce that you’re installing 17 of the largest diesel generator models at a new data center in Quincy. But Vantage Data Centers and its vendor GenAcc believe they have a different story to tell. Vantage has opted to install generators that emit far less pollution than previous units, meeting the EPA’s most stringent standards for generator operation.
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Microsoft Denies Energy Waste At Data Centre
Read Full ArticleMicrosoft has responded to criticism that it deliberately wasted energy at a data centre that was supposed to be highly efficient – saying the issue was overstated in the New York Times. The data centre industry has criticised a series of articles in the NY Times that portrayed it as wasteful. Microsoft has responded to a particular incident in which the paper claimed Microsoft deliberately wasted electricity to avoid paying a $210,000 penalty to its utility provider in Quincy, Washington – for failing to use the energy in an agreed contract.
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Google to use wind energy for Oklahoma data center
Read Full ArticleThe company says that it has inked a deal with the Grand River Dam Authority for 48 MW of wind energy. Originally posted at News - Cutting Edge
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Inside the Facebook Green Data Centre: Pictures
Read Full ArticleIn the midst of wide open spaces of farm and grazing land, the central Oregon town of Prineville (population 9,253) has a new type of farm: farms producing Web services that interconnect people. Like horses, cows and sheep data centres need water, fresh air and plenty of space, and the Facebook green data centre is the most well-known.
Unlike a farm, a data centre is mechanical and use electricity – lots of electricity. With the Columbia River about 80 miles away, providing hydroelectric power, Prineville has this in plenty, and this is why the world’s largest social network decided about four years ago to build its first wholly owned data centre in Prineville.
On 16 August we joined a small group of journalists shown round the new facility by Facebook.
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Inside the Facebook Green Data Centre: Pictures
Read Full ArticleIn the midst of wide open spaces of farm and grazing land, the central Oregon town of Prineville (population 9,253) has a new type of farm: farms producing Web services that interconnect people. Like horses, cows and sheep data centres need water, fresh air and plenty of space, and the Facebook green data centre is the most well-known.
Unlike a farm, a data centre is mechanical and use electricity – lots of electricity. With the Columbia River about 80 miles away, providing hydroelectric power, Prineville has this in plenty, and this is why the world’s largest social network decided about four years ago to build its first wholly owned data centre in Prineville.
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Facebook reveals carbon emissions and targets greener profile
Read Full ArticleFor the first time, social media giant Facebook has disclosed its annual carbon emissions and energy consumption. Related articles Shale Gas is bad news for renewables says leading think tank Calor declines move to biodiesel on risk to reliability Low carbon vehicle scheme receives Government boost GRI calls for public to comment on sustainability reporting guidance Plans for Mars wind turbine scrapped Following the news in June this year that carbon reporting is to become mandatory for all FTSE-listed companies social media giant Facebook has revealed its carbon emissions nine months ahead of the imposed April deadline. The report shows that Facebook's total carbon emission were 285,000 metric tons and that it used 532m kWh of energy last year. Of this energy 23% was from clean and renewable sources, however the majority came from coal at 27%, with 17% natural gas, 13% nuclear and 20% uncategorized.
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