Category: Hydro

1. Countries in the News

   (7 articles) Iceland

   (2 articles) Europe

   (1 articles) United Kingdom

2. Organizations in the News

   (3 articles) Microsoft

   (2 articles) Forbes

   (2 articles) Verne Global

   (1 articles) LEED

   (1 articles) National Renewable Energy Laboratory

   (1 articles) Interactive Data Corporation

   (1 articles) Yahoo !

   (1 articles) Department of Energy

   (1 articles) The Green Grid

   (1 articles) Yahoo

3. People in the News

   (1 articles) Carol Wilson

   (1 articles) Doug Mohney

   (1 articles) Tate Cantrell

   (1 articles) Jeff Monroe

1. Are Washington State Taxes driving Data Center builders out of State?

   Explore Article greenm3.com (Jan 12 2010) Construction , Hydro , Cloud Computing , Servers

   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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2. The next decade: Renewable Energy

   Explore Article ABC7.com Green Content (Jan 5 2010) Cap and Trade , Carbon Tax , Emissions , Fossil Fuel , Geothermal , Hydro , Wind

   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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3. Iceland: New Hot Spot for Data Centers?

   Explore Article CIO.com (Nov 17 2009) Construction , Power and Cooling , Carbon Footprint , Emissions , Geothermal , Hydro

   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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4. Transcript: A Green Recovery

   Explore Article Forbes.com (Nov 12 2009) Fossil Fuel , Geothermal , Hydro

   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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5. Wind Power Picks Up Speed at Other World Computing

   Explore Article greenercomputing.com (Oct 27 2009) Construction , Carbon Footprint , Hydro , Wind , Servers

   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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6. Sabey Addresses Tukwila Flood Concerns

   Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Sep 22 2009) Hydro

   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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7. Twittered: Verne Global by Vertatique

   Explore Article Vertatique (Sep 16 2009) Construction , Power and Cooling , Carbon Footprint , Geothermal , Hydro

   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:
   

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8. Top challenges to alternative energy

   Explore Article Electrical Contractor (Sep 14 2009) Geothermal , Hydro , Solar , Wind

   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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9. Fixing Iceland

   Explore Article Forbes.com (Aug 24 2009) Geothermal , Hydro

   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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10. Giant Oyster machine waves in electricity

    Explore Article Technology News (Aug 6 2009) Hydro

    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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11. British Columbia still committed to green power

    Explore Article Reuters.com (Jul 31 2009) Hydro

    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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12. Falling for hydro all over again by carol wilson

    Explore Article Views and Opinions on Green IT (Jul 27 2009) Power and Cooling , Hydro

    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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13. Scottish Data Center Village Raises $1B

    Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Jul 6 2009) Hydro , Cloud Computing

    Internet Villages International said this week that it has secured nearly $1 billion in financial backing for its planned 3 million square foot “data center village” in Annandale, Scotland. The company also said it will partner with APC by Schneider, which will provide the technology and infrastructure for multiple data centers on an initial 125-acre phase of the development. IVI’s long-range plans for the campus, known as ALBA1, include more than 3 million square feet of data center space with a total development cost of 1 billion pounds ($1.6 billion). Internet Villages did not identify the investor who had committed ...
    

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14. International Hydropower Association World Congress

    Explore Article FastCompany.com (Jun 23 2009) Hydro

    Comment "Photo shows Verne Global data center campus currently under construction in Iceland." - Lisa Rhodes

    Melting banks. A tumbling currency. More lousy Björk singles. Iceland's pride has taken a pummeling over the past year. But delegates at this summit will discover that the Arctic nation still has one thing to boast about: its ability to turn water into watts. Hydroelectric dams generate more than 80% of Iceland's electricity. That cheap, clean power could reenergize the economy by attracting electricity-hungry industries. Alcoa has opened a $1 billion aluminum smelter in eastern Iceland, and Microsoft and Google are reportedly considering the country as a data-center site.
    

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15. The price of carbon and your data center by Doug Mohney

    Explore Article Views and Opinions on Green IT (Jun 18 2009) Monitoring , Cap and Trade , Carbon Tax , Emissions , Hydro , Nuclear

    Recent market trading in Europe and U.S. estimates put the price of carbon at around $20 a ton today. By 2010, the non-profit Investor Responsibility Research Center thinks that the world will see pricing of $28.24 per ton, says Forbes. Regardless of the mechanism – a flat carbon emitter tax, cap-and-trade policies, or carbon offset buys – data center operators have to start factoring in the cost of carbon into their operation. First, let’s be honest: It is hard to predict the future with great certainty, doubly so when we move from lies, damned lies, and statistics into the realm ...
    

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