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    1. Yahoo Building Next ‘Coop’ in Switzerland

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      Yahoo Building Next ‘Coop’ in Switzerland
      The Yahoo Computing Coop is coming to Europe. Yahoo confirmed Thursday that it will build its next major data center in Avenches, Switzerland. The new facility, which will come online in 2012, will use a Yahoo design that allows the data center to be cooled with fresh air, foregoing the use of energy-hungry chillers. This approach, modeled loosely on heat management principles used in chicken coops, was first implemented in the company’s new data center in Lockport, New York.
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    2. Data centers shuffle off to Buffalo

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      Data centers shuffle off to Buffalo
      Buffalo, N.Y., is becoming one of the hot locations for data centers, partly because of the low cost of hydroelectric power from nearby Niagara Falls. Jim Duffy in Network World reports that Yahoo recently opened a green data center in nearby Lockport and cites a Business First of Buffalo report that Verizon is considering a new data center in Niagara County. In addition into relatively cheap power, the Buffalo area also has cool temperatures, which brings down power costs, and tends to be free of earthquakes, floods and other natural disasters, according to Network World.
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    3. GreenQloud Partners with Scality for Green Cloud Hosting and Storage

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      GreenQloud Partners with Scality for Green Cloud Hosting and Storage
      Renewable-energy-rich Iceland offers a lucrative opportunity for organizations' data center and colocation needs, according to Lisa Rhodes, marketing and sales vice president of wholesale data center developer Verne Global. “A core value in the Verne Global model is to achieve the lowest total cost of operations and Iceland's unique landscape makes this a real possibility with an abundance of inexpensive, 100-percent renewable energy supplied by the region's hydro-electric and geothermal electricity resources combined with an advanced smart grid technology,” she said in a Q&A interview with the WHIR. According to GreenQloud’s Tuesday announcement, the Icelandic company will enable it to launch what it describes as the “world's first truly green cloud service,” which is powered solely by Iceland’s geothermal and hydro-electric power. Currently in beta, its cloud services are available for rent by the hour, and clients only pay for what they use so ...
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    4. Verizon Eyes NY State for Major Data Center

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      Verizon Eyes NY State for Major Data Center
      Verizon Communications is considering Somerset, N.Y. as the site of major data center that could bring up to $500 million in investment. The huge telecom company is in negotiations to acquire a 160-acre piece of land on the shores of Lake Ontario. “We do have interest in this parcel,” Verizon spokesperson John Bonomo told local media. “We are considering other sites in other states as well.” Local officials in the Buffalo region have been working to land Verizon, but have maintained secrecy about the identity of the prospect, using the code name “Project Oasis” to refer to the development.
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    5. Yahoo Spreads its Wings with 'Chicken Coop' Data Center

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      Yahoo Spreads its Wings with 'Chicken Coop' Data Center
      Yahoo's latest data center, which we first wrote about earlier this year, brings the decidedly low-tech ideas of chicken farming to the server farm, and showcases the big green potential of small ideas. The "Yahoo Computing Coop" is based on the principles of chicken coop design: A series of long, tall buildings aligned along the path of the prevailing winds, the Coop is able to harness those winds for free cooling for most of the year, much as chicken farmers use the wind to clear out the smells of hundreds or thousands of chickens.
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    6. Quincy Generator Cluster Draws Scrutiny

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      Quincy Generator Cluster Draws Scrutiny
      Economic development officials love clusters of huge Internet data centers. But environmental officials are less enthused about large clusters of diesel generators. The town of Quincy, Washington has both, serving as home to major data centers for Microsoft, Yahoo and Intuit (with another project from Sabey Corp. on the way). Each of the data centers in Quincy uses banks of generators to provide backup power in the event of a utility outage. Diesel engine exhaust is a regulated pollutant, and can be toxic in high concentrations, so state regulators routinely review permits for generators.
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    7. Data Center Day in Quincy

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      Data Center Day in Quincy
      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 Washington Gov. Christine Gregoire, who signed the bill into law.
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    8. Rackforce builds a Green Data Center Stack with Cisco UCS Servers

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      Rackforce builds a Green Data Center Stack with Cisco UCS Servers
      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 path to a Green Data Center, I don't know what is. Yet, few take this approach.
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    9. In Iceland, Making Lemonade Out of Ash

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      In Iceland, Making Lemonade Out of Ash
      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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    10. Are Washington State Taxes driving Data Center builders out of State?

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      Are Washington State Taxes driving Data Center builders out of State?
      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 data centers. But the company has forged a strong track record in building energy-efficient facilities, and its expansion comes at a time of growing interest in data centers built to the highest efficiency standards.
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    11. The next decade: Renewable Energy

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      The next decade: Renewable Energy
      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 afford with the help of government incentives that started in 2010.
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    12. Iceland: New Hot Spot for Data Centers?

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      Iceland: New Hot Spot for Data Centers?
      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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    13. Transcript: A Green Recovery

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      Transcript: A Green Recovery
      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 result now is that 100% of Icelandic electricity is green, domestically produced energy. And over 90% of the houses are heated in the same way. And this extremely low cost.
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    14. Wind Power Picks Up Speed at Other World Computing

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      Wind Power Picks Up Speed at Other World Computing
      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 said. "I made the decision to 100 percent self-fund this project because of the conservational benefits as well as the future cost of energy," Larry O'Connor said in a statement. "With the kilowatt hour rate in the Chicago market up 24.3 percent since 1999, it ...
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    15. Sabey Addresses Tukwila Flood Concerns

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      Sabey Addresses Tukwila Flood Concerns
      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 rains could overtop the levees and flood sections of Tukwila, Renton, Kent, South Seattle and Auburn.
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    16. Twittered: Verne Global by Vertatique

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      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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    17. Top challenges to alternative energy

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      Top challenges to alternative energy
      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 to the end-user. These problems require design and development of new techniques as well as improvement of existing ones.
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      Mentions: Department of Energy National Renewable Energy Laboratory

    18. Fixing Iceland

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      Fixing Iceland
      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 adoption of the euro.
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    19. Giant Oyster machine waves in electricity

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      Giant Oyster machine waves in electricity
      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 Power.
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    20. British Columbia still committed to green power

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      British Columbia still committed to green power
      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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    21. Falling for hydro all over again by carol wilson

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      Falling for hydro all over again by carol wilson
      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, such as Google’s Oregon data center complex on the banks of the Columbia River.
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    22. Scottish Data Center Village Raises $1B

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      Scottish Data Center Village Raises $1B
      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 to provide 600 million pounds ($979 million) to back the project. One of the major marketing points for IVI and Scotland locations is the ability to design a data center around renewable energy sources.
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    23. International Hydropower Association World Congress

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      International Hydropower Association World Congress
      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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    24. The price of carbon and your data center by Doug Mohney

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      The price of carbon and your data center by Doug Mohney
      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 of computer modeling built on assumptions that may or may not have to do anything with the real world. However, having said that, barring a sudden set of breakthroughs in energy generation and/or conservation, your electric bill has a good chance of having a carbon tax built into ...
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