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Internet giant Google has invested in a new data centre in Dublin, Ireland to help it meet the massive demand for storage from cloud computing servivces Google has invested €75million (around £65m, $100) in an eleven acre data centre in Dublin, Ireland, this comes just two weeks after Google opened a €200m data centre in Hamina, Finland. According to Google, Finland and Ireland were chosen as the locations of the new data centres due to the relatively cool climate, which saves Google money by providing the data centres with free cooling instead of having to use expensive air-conditioning. It is thought that the data centre will create 200 short-term jobs for construction workers etcetera, and thirty long-term jobs for data centre staff, Google also added that its data centres use half the energy that other data centres use. The internet giant already has a data centre in Dublin and stated ... (Read Full Article)

Will Detail How To Accurately Measure Energy Consumption, Eliminate/Consolidate Non-Productive IT Equipment, Optimally Plan for New Equipment Placement, Optimize Power and Cooling, and Protect Against Data Center Black-Out. The ability to measure data center energy consumption has become increasingly business critical due to: rising energy costs coupled with increasing data center power and cooling demands as IT infrastructures continue to grow, the need to fully optimize existing data center resources, as well as corporate "green/sustainability" initiatives. While factors such as the availability of energy efficiency rebates and concern over governmental energy regulations have also played a role. Regardless, until now data center management executives have had very little, if any, visibility into IT equipment energy consumption. The limited solutions that have been available have proven to be prohibitively expensive and far too complicated to deploy and effectively utilize. (Read Full Article)