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    1. Manchester Companies Open £3M Green Data Centre

      Explore PR.com (Jan 22 2011) Power and Cooling

      Manchester Companies Open £3M Green Data Centre Two MEN Business of The Year winners, UKFast and Sudlows, have teamed up to open a high-power data centre in Manchester in the first quarter of the year. The new development, MaNOC3, will incorporate 12,000 servers to deliver entirely carbon neutral hosting to an impressive list of UK clients including HSBC, Barclays, T-mobile and JJB Sports. Lawrence Jones, Managing Director of UKFast says, “We are very excited to be creating one of the UK’s most energy efficient facilities with the specialists at Sudlows. With the completion of this data centre, we are not only providing carbon neutral hosting but our future plans mean we will be producing our own green energy - a first for any UK hosting provider." (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   United Kingdom   The Green Grid

    2. Green Data Center Market to Reach $69.7 Billion by 2016

      Explore PR.com (Sep 24 2010) Cloud Computing , Servers

      Green Data Center Market to Reach $69.7 Billion by 2016 MarketResearch.com has announced the addition of Wintergreen Research’s new report “Green Data Center: Modernization Market Shares, Strategies, and Forecasts, Worldwide, 2010 to 2016” to their collection of Computer Equipment market reports. Worldwide data center markets are poised to achieve significant growth as the zEnterprise systems from IBM, new storage virtualization from EMC, and Integrity servers from Hewlett Packard converge to make cloud computing a reality. (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Hewlett Packard   IBM

    3. Wyoming Offers Data Center Tax Incentives While Neighboring States Raise Tech ...

      Explore PR.com (Apr 1 2010) Carbon Footprint , Wind , Cloud Computing

      At a time when neighboring states are raising taxes on technology companies, Wyoming and Green House Data are causing more businesses to look across the border. New Wyoming tax incentives make Green House Data’s outsourced data center services to more attractive to technology companies in neighboring states. A measure exempting data center operators from sales tax on the purchase of technology equipment was signed into law in March. “We are very pleased to be able to pass along these tax and other incentives to our colocation and managed hosting customers,” said Shawn Mills, president at Green House Data. “Our data center is focused on improving our customers’ ROI. At a time when the economy is putting pressure on all businesses, these incentives absolutely lower costs for our clients.” (Read Full Article)

    4. AltaTerra Research Sees Growing Interest in Carbon Reduction Strategies for ...

      Explore PR.com (Oct 29 2009) Carbon Footprint , Emissions

      AltaTerra Research Sees Growing Interest in Carbon Reduction Strategies for ... For IT-intensive businesses, carbon is becoming another important factor in the data center energy cost and efficiency equation. When location, carbon intensity of local power sources, and data center efficiency are combined, carbon emissions from a given server configuration can vary by a factor of ten. In the face of a changing regulatory environment, this remarkable range in carbon emissions performance is prompting new long-term thinking in data center location, sourcing, and upgrade strategies. Panelists included Christine Page, Director of Climate and Energy Strategy at Yahoo!, Andy Broer, Senior Manager, Infrastructure Critical Environments at Cisco, Mark Thiele, Director of Business Operations at VMware, and Ben Machol, Program Manager for Clean Energy and Climate Change Office at the U.S. EPA. Don Bray, co-founder and President of AltaTerra Research, organized the panel and moderated. (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Yahoo   Cisco   Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory