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    1. Level 3 Buys 100% Renewable Power for Three Data Centers

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      Level 3 Buys 100% Renewable Power for Three Data Centers
      Level 3 Communications has taken three colocation facilities 100 percent renewable. The communications services provider has signed up to a 100 percent green energy product with the electricity providers for one colocation center in Amsterdam and two facilities in London. The green power product sources its energy from hydroelectric, wind and solar. This is backed up by the energy producer’s proof of origin and is checked on a regular basis by independent auditors, Level 3 says. NYSE Euronext recently announced it had become the first carbon-neutral global exchange operator with initiatives including the installation of an array of solar panels at its Basildon, England data center. Besides its energy efficiency and conservation efforts, the company also bought Green-e certified renewable energy certificates and carbon offsets.
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    2. Quincy Data Center Diesel Generator Count is up to 132 with Dell and Sabey most recent addition

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      Quincy Data Center Diesel Generator Count is up to 132 with Dell and Sabey most recent addition
      Wenatchee World has an article on the diesel generators permitted by the Washington Dept of Ecology. Ecology issues more generator permits By K.C. MehaffeyWorld staff writer Wednesday, August 31, 2011 QUINCY — The state Department of Ecology on Friday issued an air quality permit to Sabey Corp., allowing the company to install 44 backup generators for a 520,000-square-foot Intergate-Quincy Data Center in case of a power outage. On Aug. 5, Ecology approved 28 backup generators for the Dell Data Center in Quincy. Last year, Microsoft won approval to expand its diesel generators to 37, and early this year, Yahoo! was granted permission to increase its generators to 23. This brings the total diesel generators permitted to 132. That brings the total number of approved backup generators in Quincy to 132. The state agency evaluated the potential health risks from that much diesel exhaust, which has several toxic pollutants.
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    4. Data centers drawn to Washington State by cheap clean power and connectivity

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      Data centers drawn to Washington State by cheap clean power and connectivity
      Data centers drawn to Washington State by cheap clean power and connectivityDatacenterDynamicsThese methods can result in free cooling for more than 90% of the year. As early as the mid 1990s, public utilities in the counties of Eastern Washington saw the potential growth in data centers and had the foresight to begin installing extensive ...
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    5. Scotland's Next Wave: Marine Power

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      Scotland's Next Wave: Marine Power
      From his office in a converted Victorian schoolhouse, Neil Kermode can see little more than centuries-old stone buildings and narrow streets better suited to horse carts than Land Rovers. Yet Kermode, head of the European Marine Energy Centre in Scotland’s Orkney Islands, will tell you he can also see the future. Orkney, a collection of green, hilly islands where the North Sea collides with the Atlantic Ocean, has become a testing ground for wave and tidal power, technologies that will be instrumental in helping Scotland reach its goal of getting all its electricity from renewable sources by 2020. “The bit of alchemy of turning seawater into electricity has been done,” Kermode says as he gazes out at the busy harbor in Stromness, a 90-minute ferry ride from the Scottish mainland. “Now what we’ve got to do is to industrialize it and do it reliably.”
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    6. In Pacific NW, 1 nuclear plant is more expensive to maintain than 31 hydro-electric plants

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      In Pacific NW, 1 nuclear plant is more expensive to maintain than 31 hydro-electric plants
      Washington State has one nuclear power plant that is up for renewal. Seattle Times science reporter PREV 6 of 6 NEXT RICHLAND — When Washington's only commercial nuclear-power plant applied for license renewal last year, the timing seemed charmed. Hailed as a clean alternative to carbon-belching coal and gas, atomic power was poised for a renaissance. Operators at the Columbia Generating Station near Richland were so bullish on the technology they talked about expanding with small, modular reactors. In another Seattletimes article discussing the cost and benefits of nuclear power, the maintenance cost is mentioned. Looking only at operating and maintenance costs, Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) puts the price at 3.6 cents per kwh. Hydropower costs about 2.8 cents per kwh. BPA has had to boost rates — including a proposed 8 percent increase for 2012-13 — to pay for upgrades at the nuclear-power plant. According to a 2009 BPA ...
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    7. Scotland Aims to Be the Arabia of Green Energy

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      Scotland Aims to Be the Arabia of Green Energy
      Above the entrance to a converted school in the Orkney Islands, off the northern tip of Scotland, a line from John F. Kennedy is inscribed on the wall: “We need people who can dream of things that never were.” Beyond the portals of the European Marine Energy Centre, researchers are seeking to transform this island archipelago into a global hub of the renewable age. Situated where the North Sea and Atlantic Ocean collide, a maritime crossroads that Vikings featured in their sagas, companies such as EON AG and Iberdrola SA are today drawn to Orkney as a test bed for the latest wave and tidal power technologies.
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    9. Telus builds US$65m green data center in Quebec

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      Telus builds US$65m green data center in Quebec
      Canadain telecommunications and hosting provider Telus said it is building a US$65m Tier III data center in Quebec, Canada. The data center will be built by Skanska to LEED Gold standards, will use hydroelectric power and will be built for a PUE of 1.15, according to TELUS Quebec VP François Côté. “The new TELUS Intelligent Internet Data Centre will be a flagship facility; one of the most energy efficient and environmentally friendly purpose-built data centres of its kind in North America,” Côté said.
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    10. ABB invests in technology for data center energy efficiency

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      ABB invests in technology for data center energy efficiency
      ABB has purchased a controlling interest in US-based Validus DC Systems, a provider of direct current (dc) power infrastructure equipment for energy-intensive data centers. DC technology is allegedly more energy efficient than traditional alternating current (ac) technology for electrical distribution. DC systems are reportedly less complex, requiring less space and equipment, resulting in considerable additional savings in real estate and capital expenditure. The investment in Brookfield, CT-based Validus complements ABB’s strong technology platform to bolster its entry into the $24 billion market for telecommunications and data center power infrastructure.
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    11. ABB Invests in Breakthrough Technology for Data Center Energy Efficiency

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      ABB Invests in Breakthrough Technology for Data Center Energy Efficiency
      DC technology is substantially more energy efficient than traditional alternating current (AC) technology for electrical distribution. DC systems are also less complex, requiring less space and equipment, resulting in considerable additional savings in real estate and capital expenditure. The investment in Brookfield, CT-based Validus complements ABB’s strong technology platform to bolster its entry into the $24 billion market for telecommunications and data center power infrastructure. “DC systems provide data centers with a game-changing advantage in both operational and capital cost savings and we believe they will be widely adopted in this energy-intensive industry,“ said Tarak Mehta, head of ABB’s Low Voltage Products division.
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    12. U.K. wagers on large-scale wave power

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      U.K. wagers on large-scale wave power
      The European Union will consider whether a massive wave energy project from Scotland should receive a piece of a renewable-energy and carbon reduction project fund that could total billions of euros. The Pentland Orkney Wave Energy Resource (POWER) project was nominated this week by the U.K. government for the NER300, a fund managed jointly by the European Commission, European Investment Bank, and member states that's named after the 300 million carbon "allowances" being sold to raise the funds. If approved, funded, and built, the wave energy farm would be the largest grid-connected wave energy farm in the world, according to the Scottish European Green Energy Centre. The POWER project as currently proposed would place 24 wave energy converters from Pelamis Wave Power and 10 Oyster 3 wave energy converters from Aquamarine Power in the Orkneys off the coast of Scotland. They would tie in to the Scottish electric ...
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    14. Dell and Sabey begin construction on Quincy projects

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      Dell and Sabey begin construction on Quincy projects
      Datacenter companies Sabey and Dell have begun construction on their Quincy projects. Sabey began the excavation work last week for its 520,000 square-foot Intergate.Quincy site near the intersection of roads 11 and O Northwest. Dell started the dirt work for its 350,000 square-foot datacenter project across D Street Northwest from the Microsoft datacenter last month. The Sabey project will be built in two stages, according to a news release from Sabey Datacenter Properties, which is based in Tukwila. The first phase will include a 135,000 square-foot building and a 190,000 square-foot building. The third building will be completed at a later date.
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    15. Microsoft Data Center GM Timmons Heads to Apple

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      Microsoft Data Center GM Timmons Heads to Apple
      Kevin Timmons, who helped build the data centers that power Microsoft’s global cloud computing operation, has left the company and is expected to take a leadership position at Apple. The move strongly hints that Apple is stepping up its plans for an expansion of its data center infrastructure beyond its huge new facility in North Carolina. In confirming Timmons’ departure, Microsoft made no mention of his destination. “Kevin Timmons, general manager of Datacenter Services, has decided to pursue other career opportunities and is no longer working at Microsoft,” said Dayne Sampson, CVP of Global Foundation Services, Microsoft. “We appreciate the contributions he made to Microsoft during his time here.”
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    16. Verizon Scraps Plans for Massive NY Data Center

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      Verizon Scraps Plans for Massive NY Data Center
      Verizon has scrapped plans for a 900,000 square foot data center near Buffalo, citing delays in acquiring the land and a lawsuit from a local resident seeking to block the project. The data center could have meant more than $4 billion in investment over the next decade at a site on the shores of Lake Ontario in Somerset, N.Y. The huge communications company had secured an option on 160 acres of land about a half a mile north of Laramie. But on Thursday Verizon told local officials that it was no longer interested in developing the site, citing difficulties in completing the deal with the property owner, AES Corp.
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    18. Microsoft copies Yahoo!’s chicken coop with tractor shed.

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      Microsoft copies Yahoo!’s chicken coop with tractor shed.
      The building’s utilitarian appearance belies its many hidden innovations. The structure is virtually transparent to ambient outdoor conditions, allowing us to essentially place our servers and storage outside in the cool air while still protecting it from the elements. The interior layout is specifically designed to allow us to further innovate in the ways that we deploy equipment in future phases of the project. And, like any good barn, the protective shell serves to keep out critters and tumbleweeds. Additional phases have been planned for the Quincy site and will be built based on demand. Those phases will incorporate even more cutting-edge methods to deploy servers and storage in ways that have never been seen before in the industry.
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    19. Dell, Sabey Outline Huge Data Center Projects

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      Dell, Sabey Outline Huge Data Center Projects
      Dell plans to build a 350,000 square foot data center on land it recently purchased in Quincy, Washington, while developer Sabey Corp. will build more than 508,000 square feet of mission-critical facilities on a nearby property. The two companies disclosed details of their plans in recent documents filed with local officials. Dell expects to start construction on its project in March, and plans to complete the facility in three phases, with the first phase coming online in 2012. Phase two and phase three are estimated to be built by late 2018. “This construction date is estimated with respect to market demands and power availability,” the company said in a filing with the city of Quincy.
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    20. Hydropower Makes Data Centre Carbon Neutral

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      Hydropower Makes Data Centre Carbon Neutral
      IT hosting company UKFast is claiming to be the first carbon neutral hosting company in Britain, after achieving the PAS 2060 (Publicly Available Specification 2060) certification of carbon neutrality published by the British Standards Institution. Colombia, Antioquia Department - La Cascada The PAS certification confirms that all of UKFast’s in-house CO2 emissions have been offset – from staff travel to data centre emissions. The offsetting has been achieved through contributions to three large-scale hydroelectric power schemes in Columbia (left), Brazil and Turkey.
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    21. With NC Site, Facebook Rebuffs Greenpeace

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      With NC Site, Facebook Rebuffs Greenpeace
      Facebook isn’t going to let Greenpeace push its data centers around. That’s the clear conclusion from Facebook’s decision to locate its second company-built data center in North Carolina. The social network has been under relentless pressure from Greenpeace to build its data centers in areas where it can use renewable energy to power its servers. Facebook’s choice of North Carolina shows that the company continues to see energy efficient facilities as the best way to reduce its carbon impact, rather than placing data centers near renewable energy sources. In recent weeks, Facebook has published several case studies of energy efficiency projects that have reduced the carbon impact of the company’s data centers.
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    22. Dell Plans Data Center in Washington State

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      Dell Plans Data Center in Washington State
      Dell has purchased property in the growing data center hub of Quincy, Washington in connection with a secretive data center project known as “Project Roosevelt.” County records indicate that Dell Marking LP has paid $3.6 million to purchase a property in the Port of Quincy from Michael and Marsha Rodgers, according to local media.
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    23. Verizon Offered 25 MW of Power in NY State

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      Verizon Offered 25 MW of Power in NY State
      The New York Power Authority (NYPA) has allocated 25 megawatts of hydro-electric power for a proposed Verizon data center that could bring hundreds of millions of dollars of investment in Niagara County, N.Y. The NYPA Board of Trustees last week approved the for the proposed 900,000 square foot data center project on Lake Road in Somerset, Securing the power was seen as a key step in the region’s bid to secure the huge Verizon project, which the company says could involve up to $3 billion in investment over a 20-year period.
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    24. Verizon Outlines Plans for Huge NY Data Center

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      Verizon Outlines Plans for Huge NY Data Center
      Verizon is moving ahead with plans to build a mammoth data center campus in Somerset, N.Y. on the shores of Lake Ontario. The company outlined plans to spend $500 million to build 900,000 square feet of data center space, which it will fill with up to $3.4 billion worth of equipment over the 20-year life of the facility. Combined with land, utilities and other costs, the project represents a total investment of about $4.5 billion, according to the Buffalo News.
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