If you’re a Verizon subscriber, all that Facebooking, texting, and tweeting you do on your smartphone is about to get a bit greener. The US telecom giant says that it will spend $100 million over the next ...
KEFLAVIK, Iceland, May 1, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Verne Global, an innovative, UK-based developer of energy efficient data center campuses, has been recognized with the 2013 IDG InfoWorld Green 15 Award for the world's first dual-sourced, 100% renewable ... increase in power pricing and power consumption in the data center industry, Verne Global's campus draws commercial power from Iceland's dual-sourced renewable energy grid and utilizes the country's ambient temperatures to provide free cooling.
Verne Global, an innovative, UK-based developer of energy efficient data center campuses, has been recognized with the 2013 IDG InfoWorld Green 15 Award for the world's first dual-sourced, 100% renewable power data center. Selected for developing a project resulting in sustainability gains, including higher energy efficiency, the award honors the technology of Verne Global's campus and how it's improving the environment while also allowing for significant business benefits.
KEFLAVIK, Iceland, May 1, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Verne Global, an innovative, UK-based developer of energy efficient data center campuses, has been recognized with the 2013 IDG InfoWorld Green 15 Award for the world's first dual-sourced, 100% renewable ... increase in power pricing and power consumption in the data center industry, Verne Global's campus draws commercial power from Iceland's dual-sourced renewable energy grid and utilizes the country's ambient temperatures to provide free cooling.
Facebook is to invest $299.5 million (£196m) in the first phase of an efficient data centre on a site in Iowa where a new facility has been rumoured for some time. The data centre at Altoona, Iowa, will make use of Iowa’s extensive wind-powered electricity, and was announced on a blog post by Jay Parikh, Facebook’s vice president of infrastructure engineering. It will use Facebook’s own implementation of the Open Compute design of stripped down, low-energy servers.
With 1 billion users and growing, the social network needs more servers to keep up with the constant flux of information. Originally posted at News - Internet & Media
Google is expanding its North Carolina data centre, and heading off protest at the emissions caused by its electricity use by setting up a renewable energy tariff with its utility company. As part of a $600 million (£394m) expansion of the data centre, Google is making a new agreement with its electricity provider, Duke Energy, to pay extra for its power through a tariff which channels the money to specific renewable energy projects run by Duke.
The social network is the mysterious company behind a billion-dollar-plus data facility in Iowa, says a report. Apple had also been among the suspects named by data detectives. Originally posted at News - Internet & Media
In a blow for global efforts to mitigate climate change, the European Union’s eight-year-old carbon market is collapsing. Is this the death knell for cap and trade, or a useful lesson?
The Wall Street Journal tells us that the entire edifice of Europe's attempt at controlling carbon emissions has come tumbling down. They say this because the price of permits on the trading exchange has tumbled. But they seem to be unaware that low prices are just great, this is what we actually desire: One of the great policy bubbles of our times has been cap and trade for carbon emissions ...
Despite all the mounting scientific concern, the political rhetoric and the clean technology of the past decade, the growth rate in global carbon emissions has not reduced at all. Why? Because we continue to extract and burn fossil fuels more than ever before We have far more oil, coal and gas than we can safely burn. For all the millions of words written about climate change, the challenge ...
Commercial power and fossil fuel consumption is turning out be a crucial element in deciding the opex of telecom operators in the country. The situation is alarming since many operators spend over a third of their opex on power and fossil fuels like diesel.
With the move, Big Blue is the latest on the bandwagon to aggressively push flash into data centers. IBM's flash push comes courtesy of its Texas Memory Systems acquisition. Originally posted at News - Business Tech
The new Wave Glider SV3 is essentially a fully autonomous floating server rack, a system its maker fashions as the Amazon Web Services of the open ocean. Originally posted at News - Cutting Edge
Yes, there should be a price on carbon emissions. Directly pricing carbon dioxide (and other greenhouse gases) provides a far better “bang for the buck” in mitigating climate change than many of the policies that have actually been put in place (such as feed-in tariffs or tax credits for wind and solar or fleet-averaged fuel efficiency standards for automobiles). Unfortunately, policies that dole out money and hide costs are often more politically palatable than policies that make costs explicit.
Washington, D.C. - Experts with the National Center for Public Policy Research are questioning the validity of Apple's recent announcement that its data centers will run on 100-percent renewable energy, and warning the public to "check the fine print."
A rise of 4.1 percent over last year will be driven in part by companies buying "premium smartphones" for employees, the research firm says. Spending on tablets is also expected to rise. Originally posted at News - Business Tech
A year ago, Apple was targeted by Greenpeace International, which ranked Apple 12th out of 14 large technology companies in a report called “How Clean Is Your Cloud?” Now Apple says it uses only renewable energy at its giant data centers.
Apple said Thursday that it has achieved 100 percent renewable energy at all of its data centers, including facilities in North Carolina, Oregon, California and Nevada.
Apple has announced its data centres use 100 percent renewable energy, while the organisation as a whole uses 75 percent renewables. Greenpeace, which has long campaigned over Apple’s efficiency record, says Apple is still damned by the company it keeps.
Just one year after Greenpeace called out Apple for its use of fossil fuels in its "How Green Is Your Cloud" report – which graded Apple no higher than a "D" in four categories consisting of energy transparency, infrastructure siting, energy efficiency, and renewables and advocacy – Apple announced that its data centers are now powered by 100 percent renewable energy.
The data centre industry might be feeling heartened by the Chancellor’s introduction of measures to support the fracking of shale gas in today’s Budget. Earlier this week, a report from 451 Research suggested that US leadership in that field might result in cloud facilities going to America, where cheap shale gas will keep energy cheaper.
PUE 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
Who would have thought the United States would one day be a leader in cutting greenhouse gas emissions? This is the nation, after all, where a former chairman of the Senate committee on the environment, James Inhofe, wrote a book about global warming called “The Greatest Hoax.” This is where a presidential election took place not six months ago in which climate change barely merited a mention, buried under an avalanche of promises to dig for coal and drill for oil.