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    1. Why Software-Defined Data Centers Cost Much More Without Optimized Power and Cooling

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      Why Software-Defined Data Centers Cost Much More Without Optimized Power and Cooling

      With all the talk of the software-defined everything, you can quickly get the impression that we have freed ourselves completely from the physical world. Indeed, software-defined servers, networks, and storage allow an unprecedented degree of flexibility, but the picture is still incomplete. To really conquer the challenges of reliability and optimization of resources, you have to add software-defined power and cooling to the mix. Without these capabilities, according to Clemens Pfeiffer, CTO of Power Assure, your software-defined data center has a good chance of running into any number of brick walls.

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      Mentions: Columbia University

    2. What's up with Small Nuclear Reactors?

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      What's up with Small Nuclear Reactors?

      There are a fair amount of ex-nuclear sub staff who work in data centers.   It is possible the idea of a small nuclear plant could follow at some part far in the future.  MIT Review discusses the current state of small nuclear reactors. Nuclear option:Babcock & Wilcox’s proposed power plant is based on two small modular nuclear reactors. Small, modular nuclear reactor designs could be relatively cheap to build and safe to operate, and there’s plenty of corporate and government momentum behind a push to develop and license them. But will they be able to offer power cheap enough to compete with natural gas? And will they really help revive the moribund nuclear industry in the United States? Last year, the U.S. Department of Energy announced that it would provide $452 million in grants to companies developing small modular reactors, provided the companies matched the funds (bringing ...

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    5. Britain Revives Regulation in a Push for Renewable Energy

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      Britain Revives Regulation in a Push for Renewable Energy

      Britain is returning to a system of greater market intervention to fulfill what the government considers to be an imperative to reduce greenhouse gases.  

      The British government announced on Friday far-reaching changes in energy regulation intended to encourage development of renewable energy and nuclear power while ensuring that the country can still meet its electricity needs.

      The changes will gradually quadruple the charges levied on consumers and businesses to help support electricity generation from low-carbon sources, to a total of about £9.8 billion, or $15.7 billion, in the 2020-21 fiscal year, from £2.35 billion now.

       

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      Mentions: Greenpeace Europe

    7. Seattle's climate puts a chill into data centers

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      Seattle's climate puts a chill into data centers

      Seattle may occasionally be associated with dreary weather, but it’s also known for its thriving tech industry and its forward-thinking efforts to cut carbon emissions, including a recent pledge to become North America’s first carbon-neutral city. We kept both of these characteristics in mind as we planned the design and buildout of our Seattle-area data center in the Sabey Campus of the high-tech Intergate East community. One of the main design elements that distinguishes our Sabey facility is

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      Mentions: New York Times ASHRAE LEED

    8. The Joy Of Green Energy: The Lights Go Out In 2015

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      The Joy Of Green Energy: The Lights Go Out In 2015

      It's entirely possible to be convinced by the case about climate change and yet still believe that what we're doing about it is even worse than the original problem. It must be possible for that's the situation I find myself in. The latest little piece of news to underwrite this gloomy view is the news that the lights are likely to go out in my native UK, starting in only three year's time. Britain risks running out of energy generating capacity in the winter of 2015-16, according to the energy regulator Ofgem.

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    11. Vigilent Stays Watchful on Data Center Cooling

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      Vigilent Stays Watchful on Data Center Cooling

      With energy costs rising, “green” efforts taking hold, and capital expenditures (CapEx) and operating expenses (OpEx) under scrutiny, there is a growing need for tools that monitor and automatically adjust energy use in the data center.Vigilent, a growing company in the East Bay area of San Francisco, provides intelligent and automatic energy management to buildings and data centers. The company renamed itself in 2011, creating the moniker “Vigilent” from the common adjective “vigilent,” which means intelligently keeping careful watch for possible danger or difficulties.

      The company was founded in 2004 as Federspiel Controls by Clifford Federspiel, who today is President and CTO. As Vigilent, the company continues to deploy its systems and technology and expand its customer base worldwide by helping building owners and data center operators optimize their cooling through its smart systems deployed in mostly mission critical facilities.

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    12. Apple's Cloud Technology Fueled by Coal

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      Apple's Cloud Technology Fueled by Coal

      In the cloud, Apple is known as a gross polluter. And the other high-tech giants didn't fare much better. Greenpeace has issued a report on cloud technology energy use and named Apple as one of the study's worst polluters, with 55 percent of its data center power coming from coal plants and 27.8 percent from nuclear reactors. The environmental group scored the companies based on energy transparency, infrastructure siting, energy efficiency and renewables/advocacy. Apple earned a D- for its overall environmental score. Facebook received a C, namely because of little energy transparency, while Google fared a little better with a B average, largely because of its commitment to renewable energy.

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    13. Pictures: A Rare Look Inside China's Energy Machine

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      Pictures: A Rare Look Inside China's Energy Machine

      A photographer gains an inside look at China’s massive power complex, and at efforts by the world’s largest energy consumer to spur cleaner future growth.

      China's energy use, production, and ambitions are best captured by superlatives: The country is the world's largest energy consumer, and leading source of greenhouse gas emissions.

      To power its tremendous economic growth, China has called on every fuel, every technology. It is the largest producer of coal and its greatest consumer, and yet China has more nuclear reactors under construction than any other nation. Its growing appetite for oil has kept gasoline prices high around the globe. And yet China's commitment to wind and solar power is so outsized that its young industries are now among the largest in the world.

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      Mentions: International Energy Agency Barack Obama Department of Energy

    14. Apple tills a solar farm to power its data center.

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      Apple tills a solar farm to power its data center.
      Apple tills a solar farm to power its data center.ITworld.comAfter that, hardware elements will be added, including HP's POD with systems running AMD's Opteron server processors, which the chip maker said are designed for greater energy efficiency and cloud computing. This company, CG Tech Services, ...and more »
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    15. Shunning Nuclear Plants at Home, Japan Pursues Building Them Overseas

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      Shunning Nuclear Plants at Home, Japan Pursues Building Them Overseas
      Even as Japan plans to phase out nuclear power as too risky for domestic use, the government is supporting a new push by Japanese industry to sell nuclear power technology to other countries. Enlarge This Image Hoang Dinh Nam/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images A model of a Japanese nuclear reactor on display in Hanoi, Vietnam. Add to Portfolio NRG Energy Inc General Electric Company Toshiba Corp AREVA Siemens AG Hitachi Ltd Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Limited Go to your Portfolio » Japanese industrial conglomerates, with the cooperation of the government in Tokyo, are renewing their pursuit of multibillion-dollar projects, particularly in smaller energy-hungry countries like Vietnam and Turkey. The effort comes despite criticism within Japan by environment groups and opposition politicians. It may seem a stretch for Japan to acclaim its nuclear technology overseas while struggling at home to contain the nuclear meltdowns that displaced more than 100,000 people. But Japan ...
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    16. What it Will Take to Make Renewable Energy a Reality in the US

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      What it Will Take to Make Renewable Energy a Reality in the US
      The IndypendentWhat it Will Take to Make Renewable Energy a Reality in the USThe IndypendentStill, its main initiative on global warming has been an unsuccessful attempt to enact a “cap and trade” system–essentially, “in exchange for being allowed to operate a coal-fired power plant in Tennessee, we'll buy a forest in Brazil and not cut it ...and more »
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    17. Energy Demand Is Expected to Rise 53% by 2035

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      Energy Demand Is Expected to Rise 53% by 2035
      Global energy demand will increase 53 percent from 2008 through 2035, with China and India accounting for half of the growth, the United States Department of Energy said on Monday. A blog about energy and the environment. Go to Blog » Add to Portfolio NDB Energy Inc Go to your Portfolio » China and India will consume 31 percent of the world’s energy by 2035, up from 21 percent in 2008, the department’s International Energy Outlook projected. In 2035, Chinese energy demand will exceed that of the United States by 68 percent, it said. “Economic growth continues to look good in emerging nations,” Howard K. Gruenspecht, acting administrator of the Energy Information Administration, said on Monday at a briefing in Washington.
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    18. Siemens Abandoning Nuclear Power Business

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      Siemens Abandoning Nuclear Power Business
      Siemens, the largest engineering conglomerate in Europe, announced Sunday that following the German government’s decision to phase out nuclear power by 2022, it would stop building nuclear power plants anywhere in the world. “The chapter for us is closed,” Peter Löscher, the chief executive of the Munich-based conglomerate, said in an interview with Der Spiegel, the weekly news magazine. He emphasized the company’s commitment to the rapidly growing renewable energy sector. He said the decision was also “an answer” to political and social opposition to nuclear power in Germany. Siemens, which built all of Germany’s 17 nuclear power plants, is the first big company to announce such a shift in strategy. But other German companies involved in the nuclear energy industry are also reconsidering their options.
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    19. Quake in Japan Is Causing a Costly Shift to Fossil Fuels

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      Quake in Japan Is Causing a Costly Shift to Fossil Fuels
      The half-century-old, oil-fueled power generators here had been idle for more than a year when, a day after the nuclear accident in March, orders came from Tokyo Electric Power headquarters to fire them up. “They asked me how long it would take,” said Masatake Koseki, head of the Yokosuka plant, which is 40 miles south of Tokyo and run by Tokyo Electric. “The facilities are old, so I told them six months. But they said, ‘No, you must ready them by summer to prepare for an energy shortage.’ ” Now, at summer’s peak, Yokosuka’s two fuel-oil and two gas turbines are cranking out a total of 900,000 kilowatts of electricity a day — and an abundance of fumes. The generators are helping to replace the 400 million kilowatt-hours of daily electricity production lost this summer because of the shutdown of all but 15 of Japan’s 54 nuclear reactors ...
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    20. New Nuclear Policy Takes Toll on German Utility's Results

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      New Nuclear Policy Takes Toll on German Utility's Results
      RWE, the German utility, said Tuesday that net profit for the first half of the year plunged nearly 40 percent as a result of Berlin’s decision to phase out nuclear power generation by 2022 and to impose a special tax on nuclear fuel. To cope with the impact of the nuclear policy, RWE said it would increase the scope of its divestment program, move more quickly into the renewable energy sector, and review its investments. The company is Germany’s second-largest energy producer, after E.ON. “Decisions taken by the German government to accelerate the nuclear phaseout have led to substantial financial burdens,” Jürgen Grossmann, the chief executive of RWE, said during a conference call. “However, the German government’s energy concept also presents us with opportunities.”
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    21. The Bunker Completes Power Ugrade New Hall at Newbury UK Data Center

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      The Bunker Completes Power Ugrade New Hall at Newbury UK Data Center
      August 2, 2011 -- UK web hosting and data center provider The Bunker announced on Monday that it has successfully added more power capacity to its ultra secure data center in Newbury, UK and added a new data hall within the existing bunker. The move comes a week after The Bunker announced its partnership with IT security provider CNS.
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    22. 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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    23. Data Centres – Watch Japan’s Energy Crisis

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      Data Centres – Watch Japan’s Energy Crisis
      Japan’s energy crisis is bringing about changes to data centres. The same thing will have to happen here, says Peter Judge When disaster struck Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power station in the 11 March earthquake, the first consideration was shutting down and ensuring safety. The long term effects could be more significant. Japan got nearly 30 percent of its power from nuclear plants, and now much of that is gone. In the wake of the disaster, other plants have closed, either as a direct result or for safety checks, and in May only 17 of the country’s 54 nuclear plants were in operation. That could imply that as much as 20 percent of the country’s electricity supply is in question – but actually, we don’t know what capacity the 17 reactors are working at, or how hard the 54 would have been working.
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    24. Reducing Human Error in the Data Center, checklist manifesto

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      Reducing Human Error in the Data Center, checklist manifesto
      Domenico Alcaro, VP of Sales Schneider Electric presented to a full room breakout session on Human Error in the Data Center.  Domenic shared his presentation and here it is for your viewing with his permission. Human error continues to be cited as a leading cause of data center downtime. The goal of eradicating this blight from the data center can be advanced by studying the US Nuclear Navy. In fact, the similarities between a mission critical data center and a mission critical nuclear propulsion plant are striking and many. This presentation will demonstrate the operational methodologies utilized by the US Nuclear Navy to reduce human error drawing comparison to a modern day data center every step of the way. Domenic Alcaro, Vice President, Enterprise Sales, Schneider Electric I was able to get access to Domenic presentation and I shared it with some other people ahead of time, and we started ...
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