1. Organizations in the News

   (3 articles) The Green Grid

   (2 articles) Digital Realty

   (1 articles) Forbes

   (1 articles) NTT America

   (1 articles) Department of Energy

   (1 articles) Uptime Institute

1. New Supercomputer Will Track Climate Change

   Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Jun 16 2010) Construction , Fossil Fuel , Wind , Supercomputer

   ...eract with the center remotely, via the Internet. The NWSC is pursuing gold certification under the LEED ( Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) program, a voluntary rating system for energy efficient buildings overseen by the US Green Building Council. The facility, which is designed specifically for scientific supercomputing, is scheduled to open i... (Read Full Article)
   

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2. Put Your Data Center through Its ABCs

   Explore Article Relocate (Jun 15 2010) Cloud Computing , Servers

   ...e. A number of certifications are available to help a data center go green. Take, for instance, the LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification offered by the US Green Building Council. The Green Grid has also contributed to LEED with its PUE, or Power Usage Effectiveness, and Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency, or DCiE, mea... (Read Full Article)
   

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3. The LEEDiest Data Centers

   Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Apr 22 2010) Construction , Cloud Computing , Servers

   For Earth Day 2010, we’re looking at the progress of the data center industry in adopting the LEED ( Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) standard for energy efficient buildings overseen by the US Green Building Council. Although the LEED program was not designed with data centers in mind, the industry’s leading builders are rapidly ada... (Read Full Article)
   

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4. California Plans Fast Data Center Consolidation

   Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Feb 11 2010) Construction , Solar

   ...00 a month since moving from an aging Sacramento site to the Vacaville facility, which has earned a LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Gold Certification, the company said today. LEED is a voluntary rating system for energy efficient buildings overseen by the US Green Building Council (USGBC). The Vacaville facility also makes extensive use of virtualization to improve the utilizati... (Read Full Article)
   

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5. Gold/Platinum LEED Twinbill for Sabey

   Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Jan 26 2010) Construction

   ...infrastructure for its data center in building B. Platinum is the highest rating possible under the LEED ( Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) program for energy efficient buildings overseen by the US Green Building Council, while Gold is the second-highest rating. The VMware data center is one of just seven LEED Platinum data centers. Building B at Intergate.Columbia is a 188,000 square foot facility supported... (Read Full Article)
   

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6. Second Digital Realty Trust data center gets LEED Platinum

   Explore Article DatacenterDynamics (Jan 11 2010) Construction , Cloud Computing

   ...ments, servers and data centers. T Wholesale data center provider Digital Realty Trust has earned a LEED Platinum certification for yet another one of its Silicon Valley facilities. The US Green Building Council has issued the certification to DRT’s data center in Santa Clara, Calif. – a second DRT facility to... (Read Full Article)
   

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7. Colo's going for LEED

   Explore Article Relocate (Nov 10 2009) Construction , Servers

   ... unclear on if a US energy tax credit program will be started and how it will be governed. Will the US Green Building Council’s LEED program or programs that have and will be developed by the US Department of Energy be key contribut......acquiring it such as Fortune Data Centers who announced that the company has earned the prestigious Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold Certification from the ... (Read Full Article)
   

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8. Going the Platinum Way

   Explore Article Relocate (Oct 8 2009) Construction , Cloud Computing

   ...assé. The platinum award, considered to be the highest level of certification available through the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) program adopts a checklist to validate the greenness of a facility and is a points based system. T......nergy efficient, but there are methods to achieve energy efficiency in data centers. Recently, the US Green Building Council (USGBC) awarded a LEED Platinum certification to Digital Realty (DLR) for an ... (Read Full Article)
   

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9. VMware's new data center powered solely by hydroelectric power

   Explore Article DatacenterDynamics (Oct 6 2009) Construction , Power and Cooling , Cloud Computing

   ...tion offerings. The company is targeting an ambitions PUE figure and has entered the facility for a LEED Platinum certification by the US Green Building Council. The vendor announced the new data center’s launch on Tuesday. If the LEED application is successful, the facility will become the third data center in the US to achieve the ... (Read Full Article)
   

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10. LEED Gold for NTT America Ashburn Site

    Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Sep 23 2009) Construction , Carbon Footprint , Cloud Computing

    The NTT America data center in Ashburn, Virginia has earned a LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Gold Certification, the company said today. LEED is a voluntary rating system for energy efficient buildings overseen by the US Green Building Council (USGBC). The NTT America facility is the latest in a small but growing number of data cent... (Read Full Article)
    

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11. Fortune Opens Green Data Center in San Jose

    Explore Article Web Host Industry Review (Apr 28 2009) Construction , Emissions , Cloud Computing , Servers

    ...Gruman Architects to adhere to sustainable construction and operational methods, as detailed in the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Program of the US Green Building Council. The company is poised to become the first operational data center in California to achieve the LEED Gold certification, having submitted all required documentation for the facility to achieve a Gold ... (Read Full Article)
    

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