Category: Power and Cooling

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1. Stream Data Centers Acquires State-of-the-Art Data Center in Denver Market

   Explore Article PR Newswire (Aug 17 2010) Power and Cooling , Cloud Computing , Servers

   Stream Data Centers, a leading provider of data center solutions for enterprise users, has acquired a new data center in Westminster, CO – a suburb of Denver. The data center was built and commissioned in 2006 by a Fortune 500 insurance company. The 29,500 square foot single story building includes 10,000 square feet of raised floor and 7,500 square feet of disaster recovery office space. This represents a rare opportunity for data center users of this size to control all aspects of the building including data center infrastructure, security and operations. The fully operational data center is available for immediate ...
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   CBRE   At&T   Nokia

2. eBay Pursues Modular Data Centers

   Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Aug 9 2010) Container , Power and Cooling , Cloud Computing

   eBay plans to use data center containers at a new facility, and has issued a public request for proposals through the Data Center Pulse industry group. The winning design will be used in an 8,000 square foot data center that eBay is building in Phoenix.
   

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3. Realistic PUE

   Explore Article Processor.com (Jul 29 2010) Power and Cooling , Servers

   • If you can’t measure PUE, tracking total power usage monthly works, too. • At smaller enterprises, small energy changes can bring down PUE. • PUE shouldn’t be used to compare data centers to one another. With ...
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   The Green Grid   Uptime Institute

4. Ten Unique Data Center Designs

   Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Jul 29 2010) Power and Cooling , Solar , Cloud Computing , Servers

   Across the globe, many data center designs use an amazing amount of creativity in locating and deploying unique data centers. These are not your run-of-the-mill server rooms, but truly one-of-a-kind facilities that have a personality all their own. There is more to data center design than the straightforward mechanical approach, according to Rob Snevely, author of Enterprise Data Center Design and Methodology. “The detailed process of data center design appears on the outset to be a purely mechanical process involving the layout of the area, computations to determine equipment capacities, and innumerable other engineering details,” Snevely writes. “They are, of ...
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   Netherlands   IBM   Syracuse University

5. Will pending law make California too costly for data centers?

   Explore Article Data Center (Jul 26 2010) Power and Cooling , Carbon Tax

   Anywhere in the country, building a data center is a major capital expense. And in California, a state with higher electrical rates and ambitious environmental goals, it may get even more expensive. A perfect storm of legislative possibilities is brewing in Sacramento with potentially reverberating effects for data centers being planned in the Golden State. Sifting through the legislative possibilities, there have been proposals for a state carbon tax, a cap-and-trade system, and the expansion of an existing standard, California's Energy Efficiency Standards for Residential and Nonresidential Buildings, Title 24, all of which could be costly to data centers.
   

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6. Data Centers With No UPS or Generator?

   Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Jul 14 2010) Data Center Outages , Power and Cooling , Cloud Computing , Servers

   First came data centers with no chillers. But is the industry ready for a data center with no UPS and no generators? That seems like a radical concept. But Yahoo is considering going without UPS (uninterruptible power supply) and generators for some future data center projects. It’s not alone in advocating design choices that represent a huge departure from current practice. A number of data center designers are urging clients to consider limiting UPS support to loads that are genuinely critical.
   

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7. Look to the Kyoto wheel to maximize free data center cooling

   Explore Article Data Center (Jul 13 2010) Construction , Power and Cooling , Servers

   It's new and it's old. It's proven, but still mysterious. It's big, and a major energy saver, but it's gone largely unnoticed. It's the Kyoto wheel -- a tremendously improved design on an older idea that seems to have solved the challenges of air-side free cooling in the data center. Although it has been well proven since its introduction in 2007, the innovations that make the Kyoto wheel such an energy-efficient cooling device have not been well understood, and its potential for large savings ...
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   ASHRAE   Netherlands

8. Photos: Inside the Equinix San Jose data centre

   Explore Article iTnews Australia (Jul 11 2010) Construction , Power and Cooling

   Equinix has confirmed that its forthcoming SV5 data centre at San Jose will adhere to green construction standards and use ‘free cooling’ technology. The new International Business Exchange (IBX) data centre, located adjacent to the company’s flagship SV1 facility, will cost approximately US$145 million to construct (see photo gallery right). iTnews understands that several variations to the standard non-raised floor in a hot/cold aisle configuration that is a staple of Equinix centres globally are under consideration for SV5 but that no decisions have been taken.
   

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9. Eddie Gets Power Boost, Goes Green

   Explore Article HPCwire (Jul 6 2010) Power and Cooling , Grid Computing

   Multi-disciplinary researchers from across the University of Edinburgh -- working in areas including bioinformatics, speech processing, particle physics, material physics, chemistry, cosmology, medical imaging and psychiatry -- will now benefit from a significant upgrade to the University's shared, high performance computer (HPC) system known as "Eddie." The new HPC system, operational from July 2010, immediately doubles the compute power available to researchers enabling them to run more complex computer simulations and scenarios, and obtain research results more quickly. A second planned upgrade for 2011 is expected to result in at least five times the current compute power of Eddie being ...
   

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10. RackForce Completes Upgrade of GigaCenter Data Center

    Explore Article Web Host Industry Review (Jul 6 2010) Power and Cooling , Cloud Computing

    Data center Operator and Infrastructure-as-a-Service provider RackForce (www.rackforce.com) announced on Tuesday it has completed its multi-million dollar power and cooling addition to its Tier III equivalent, 30,000 square foot GigaCenter in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada. RackForce decided to upgrade the data center after seeing strong demand for cloud computing and disaster recovery services. The GigaCenter, which opened one year ago, uses British Columbia's abundant supply of clean, renewable hydroelectric power.
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Europe   Interactive Data Corporation   RackForce

11. Rumor Patrol: Microsoft Eyeing N.C. Site?

    Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Jul 2 2010) Power and Cooling , Cloud Computing

    Is Microsoft focusing on North Carolina in its search for major data center in the Mid-Atlantic region? Back in February we reported that Microsoft was scouting site locations for a data center in either Virginia or North Carolina. In May the speculation focused on sites in Virginia. But this week the action seems focused on North Carolina, where the state legislature is preparing a new round of data center tax incentives, and Microsoft is reportedly considering a site in Alamance County. The Burlington Times News recently reported that Microsoft may be the mystery company involved in “Project Deacon,” a large ...
    

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12. The Advantages of Liquid Cooling

    Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Jul 2 2010) Power and Cooling , Servers

    Data centers are an ever-growing part of our economy. The IT community is experiencing constantly increasing demands in areas such as Internet media and video, banking and finance, research, and government, just to name a few. Consequently, data centers continue to grow in both size and numbers. In addition, the performance of IT servers continues to follow Moore’s law. This improves the performance per dollar spent on IT equipment, but also increases the heat density inside the data center equipment. Driven by these factors, the cost of running a data center continues to grow, even as the cost of the ...
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   ASHRAE   IBM   Crac

13. Energy saved in data centres affects bottom line

    Explore Article itweb.co.za (Jun 29 2010) Power and Cooling , Emissions , Servers

    Energy efficiency in data centres is now more important than ever before. True to its innovative character, Rittal supplies wide-ranging solutions for energy efficient, safe and high availability IT structures. The costs of supplying energy to IT components, and cooling them down, are rising all the time – they comprise up to 50% of the IT budget in many instances – and IT departments are becoming more aware of making energy savings. Alongside servers, the largest sources of wasted energy in data centres are climate control and power supply. Switching over to efficient new systems in these sectors makes a ...
    

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14. Energy Star for data centers is first definitive green data center rating

    Explore Article Data Center (Jun 23 2010) Power and Cooling , Servers

    It's finally been done: a serious certification for data centers based on energy efficiency. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Energy Star Label for data centers is based on reducing energy consumption, which should be the major determinate of "green-ness" where data centers are concerned. But this certification is not going to be easy to obtain. Only those facilities above the 75th percentile on the EPA's benchmark scale will qualify, so it will definitely be meaningful and should encourage more management interest in energy conservation.
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   LEED   U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

15. Air Economizers Can Work in Warm Climates

    Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Jun 23 2010) Power and Cooling , Servers

    Designers have long assumed that data center projects should not use outside air economizers (a.k.a. airside economizers) in warm climates. The reasons are usually obvious – when it’s 90°F or higher outdoors for much of the year, there couldn’t possibly be any benefit in bringing in that warm outside air. However, when specifically considering data center applications, there are several reasons why this logic is faulty. Benefits from Using ‘Warm’ External Air An important design consideration when sizing the cooling devices for data centers is that the higher the supply air temperature that goes into a cooled space, the more ...
    

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