Category: Power and Cooling

1. Countries in the News

   (29 articles) Europe

   (21 articles) Iceland

   (6 articles) United Kingdom

   (3 articles) Netherlands

   (2 articles) Norway

2. Organizations in the News

   (35 articles) IBM

   (30 articles) Microsoft

   (28 articles) Google

   (24 articles) The Green Grid

   (19 articles) LEED

   (14 articles) Verne Global

   (14 articles) Intel

   (13 articles) Yahoo

   (12 articles) U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

   (10 articles) ASHRAE

3. People in the News

   (11 articles) Doug Mohney

   (10 articles) Tate Cantrell

   (4 articles) Peter Judge

   (4 articles) Carol Wilson

   (4 articles) Jeff Monroe

   (3 articles) Kevin Timmons

   (2 articles) Paula Bernier

   (2 articles) Alistair Buchanan

   (2 articles) James Hamilton

   (2 articles) Vivek Kundra

1. Data centers tackling cyber terrorism, slowly

   Explore Article sfgate.com (Mar 6 2010) Power and Cooling , Cloud Computing , Servers

   The data center is receiving more public scrutiny than ever before, with IT managers facing a range of challenges from making systems run more efficiently to protecting computers from cyber terrorism, says AFCOM chief executive Jill Eckhaus The 30-year-old organization for data center managers is holding its twice-yearly Data Center World show from March 7-11 in Nashville, Tenn., where IT folks will learn about the most pressing issues facing data centers today and share their own experiences. Gov't builds secret database to fight cyber-terrorism Cyber terrorism is one of the topics Eckhaus is looking forward to examining further. AFCOM's recent ...
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   At&T

2. Microsoft’s Timmons: ‘Challenge Everything’

   Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Mar 3 2010) Power and Cooling

   The building blocks for Microsoft’s data center of the future can be assembled in four days, by one person. The two data center containers, known as IT PACs (short for pre-assembled components) proof of concept, are built entirely from aluminum. The first two proof of concept units use residential garden hoses for their water hookups. “Challenge everything you know about a traditional data center,” said Kevin Timmons, who heads Microsoft’s Global Foundation Services, in describing the company’s approach to building new data centers. “From the walls to the roof to where it needs to be built, challenge everything.”
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   Kevin Timmons   Yahoo   Microsoft

3. The Green Data Center Strategies of Web Giants

   Explore Article Earth2Tech (Feb 18 2010) Power and Cooling , Emissions , Cloud Computing , Servers

   As ethereal as the terms “web services” and “cloud computing” sound, there’s nothing lightweight about the power and cooling required to make the Internet run. It takes data centers, plain and simple — each running 24/7 and housing thousands of servers and data storage systems – to satisfy our growing appetite to tweet all day long, watch the Olympics streamed online, and Skype our friends across the globe. If you’re thinking it’s a recipe for sky-high power bills and added greenhouse emissions, well, then you’re right. Let’s take a look at how some of the biggest web firms are handling ...
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   Department of Energy   Google   Yahoo

4. Data centres find Iceland hospitable

   Explore Article computerworlduk.com (Feb 15 2010) Construction , Power and Cooling

   A new front is being opened in the race to provide inexpensive data centre space, and it's located on a former NATO base in Iceland. A data center co-location company called Verne Global decided that Iceland would be the perfect place for its first facility because of the country's climate, natural resources and network connectivity to the United States and Europe. The Icelandic site offers access to geothermal and hydroelectric energy, free cooling every day of the year, and multi-terabit-per-second connectivity to America and Europe. Verne Global, which plans to build efficient data centres throughout the world, is in the ...
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   Iceland   Europe   Verne Global

5. Simplicity yields efficiency at new Hurricane Electric data center

   Explore Article infoworld.com (Feb 10 2010) Power and Cooling , Cloud Computing , Servers

   Hurricane Electric's new energy-efficient data center isn't much to look at. In fact, at first blush, it's tough to distinguish any appreciable differences between the newly opened facility, housed in an old Apple manufacturing plant in Fremont, Calif., and the company's first data center a mile and half down the road -- even though the latter was built some ten years ago. Yet in designing the newest addition to its data center family, Hurricane Electric, which offers collocation services and hosts the world's largest IPv6-native Internet backbone, drew on lessons learned developing and running its first facility over the years. ...
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   Apple

6. Data Centers Can Apply for Energy Star Rating in June

   Explore Article environmentalleader.com (Feb 8 2010) Power and Cooling , Cloud Computing , Servers

   The EPA hopes to launch its Energy Star program for data centers in June, reports PCWorld. Earlier, the program had been tentatively scheduled to launch in early 2010. Last May, EPA launched Energy Star for servers. EPA said it is working on Energy Star for uninterruptable power supplies, or UPS systems, according to PC World. With the forthcoming rating system, data center operators will be able to assess the energy use of their facilities and receive a metric that allows them to compare how they are performing relative to their peers.
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   The Green Grid   U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

7. Green Data Centers Sprouting Across the Land

   Explore Article Insurance Networking News (Feb 3 2010) Power and Cooling , Cloud Computing

   This week, IBM Corp. opened up a new pavilion at Epcot Center, which focuses on its “SmarterPlanet” initiatives—green, collaborative and intelligent technologies. At the center of the Epcot exhibit is its green data center, based on the latest energy-efficient technologies and IBM's Scalable Modular Data Center concept. The green data center also features a cloud computing demonstration. And, in the true spirit of green, IBM will donate unused computing resources to the World Community Grid, which allocates thousands of computers from around the world to accelerate medical, humanitarian and environmental research.
   

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8. Iceland Leads Environmental Index as U.S. Falls

   Explore Article The New York Times (Jan 27 2010) Power and Cooling

   A new ranking of the world’s nations by environmental performance puts some of the globe’s largest economies far down the list, with the United States sinking to 61st and China to 121st. In the previous version of the Environmental Performance Index, compiled every two years by Yale and Columbia University researchers, the United States ranked 39th, and China 105th. The top performer this year is Iceland, which gets virtually all of its power from renewable sources — hydropower and geothermal energy. It was joined in the top tier by a cluster of European countries known for their green efforts, including ...
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   Iceland   Norway   United Nations

9. How Green Should My Tech Be?

   Explore Article Business News & Financial News (Jan 25 2010) Power and Cooling , Carbon Footprint

   In these tough economic times, green initiatives can be a hard sell. Companies don't want to take a gamble on pricey projects that lie outside their core mission. Yet lots of eco-friendly ideas promise to pay for themselves—and then some—by slashing costs and boosting efficiency. The Journal Report See the complete Business Insight report. How should companies approach the problem? To find out, we looked at green initiatives in one critical section of businesses, the corporate data center, and placed potential projects into four categories. At one end of the spectrum are obviously useful ideas that are simple and inexpensive. ...
   

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10. Q&A: Verne Global on Iceland Data Center

    Explore Article Web Host Industry Review (Jan 25 2010) Construction , Power and Cooling , Emissions , Cloud Computing

    With its low-cost and environmentally-friendly power resources, Iceland has been seeing growing demand for data center activity in recent years. Earlier this month, wholesale data center developer Verne Global (www.verneglobal.com) announced it is converting a former NATO command center into the first international data center in the country. KEF001 will be the first of four building phases, with the first phase of construction financed by equity investment from London-based charitable organization Wellcome Trust (www.wellcome.ac.uk).
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Iceland   Europe   Verne Global

11. Green It- show me the measurement - by Peter Judge

    Explore Article Views and Opinions on Green IT (Jan 25 2010) Power and Cooling , Carbon Footprint , Carbon Reduction Commitment

    It won't be a surprise to readers of Green Data Center News that reducing energy use is about making money, but not everyone sees it that way. "Rather than pushing the green agenda down the priority list, a new report [from Frost & Sullivan] has found that the economic downturn may have actually made businesses in the ICT sector pay more attention to the subject, as a way to cut costs," reported my site, eWEEK Europe UK this week. As my daughters might say, well, duh! We've known all along that cutting waste of any kind should make businesses more ...
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   IBM   Alcatel   Peter Judge

12. New Data Centre To Help With Future Ecosystem

    Explore Article Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Jan 25 2010) Power and Cooling

    TelecityGroup has built a new data centre in Paris that will help scientists establish which plant and trees will be best suited to the region's climate ... in 50 years time Data centre hosting specialist TeleCityGroup has built a brand new and highly redundant data centre in Paris, whose waste heat will help scientists establish what plants and fauna are best suited for the region's climate in fifty years time. Speaking to eWEEK Europe, Stéphane Duproz – the country manager (France) for TelecityGroup – explained that the new data centre, dubbed Condorcet, was designed and built to be one of ...
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Europe   Intel

13. The Trade off between reliability and efficiency - by Peter Judge

    Explore Article Views and Opinions on Green IT (Jan 18 2010) Construction , Power and Cooling

    Comment "I'm mot sure Uptime "measures" reliability, as that's scientifically difficult - watch the center for a thousand years and measure ..." - judgecorp

    Sitting in the world of green data centres, it's easy to forget that many people look at data centres in an entirely different way. Before a data centre can be green, it has to be reliable. The move towards green data centres is about using less energy, and measuring that by showing a low PUE - the ratio of power used, to power delivered to the servers - or a low amount of power used per MIP of processing work. But most people buying data centre services are much more focussed on how reliable those services are, with fault-tolerance and ...
    

    2 Comments Mentions:   Peter Judge   Uptime Institute

14. Iceland Gets Major Data Center Project

    Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Jan 18 2010) Construction , Power and Cooling , Carbon Footprint , Geothermal

    After years of marketing itself as an ideal destination for green data centers, Iceland is about to see the completion of its first major new data center project. Verne Holdings has lined up funding for the first phase of a new data center in a former NATO facility.
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Iceland   Verne Global   Jeff Monroe

15. Data center plays supporting role in Avatar

    Explore Article Computerworld (Jan 18 2010) Power and Cooling , Cloud Computing , Servers

    The futuristic world and blue creatures in the hit movie Avatar have their roots in an unusual data center situated in Miramar, a suburb of Wellington, New Zealand. The stunning images in the James Cameron movie were created by Weta Digital Ltd., a visual effects company co-founded by filmmaker Peter Jackson that was also responsible for the computer-rendered scenes in The Lord of the Rings trilogy. The company's digital artists transformed the director's vision into screen reality using 3-D imaging software, fine-tuning every frame multiple times. Each minute of Avatar represents 17.28GB of data, according to Weta Digital.
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Hewlett Packard   Oracle   Microsoft

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