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    1. Google flushes heat from data center with toilet water

      Explore Ars Technica (Mar 16 2012) Construction , Power and Cooling , Servers

      In 2007, when Google first opened its massive computing center in Douglas County, Georgia, it cooled the facility's equipment using the same water that's pumped into the pipes of local homes. But at some point, the search giant realized that the water used by its evaporative cooling system needn't be clean enough to drink. On Thursday, Google revealed that it's now working with the Douglasville-Douglas County Water and Sewer Authority to cool the facility with 100 percent recycled water. "When the residents of the county take showers and flush their toilets, they're helping to cool our data center," Joe Kava, the man who runs Google's data center operations and construction team, tells Wired.

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      Mentions:   Google   Facebook   Microsoft Corp

    2. Carbon-neutral data center powered by renewable energy, cooled by Iceland's chilly climate

      Explore Ars Technica (Oct 6 2011) Construction , Data Center Outages , Power and Cooling , Fossil Fuel , Geothermal

      Carbon-neutral data center powered by renewable energy, cooled by Iceland's chilly climate Building a data center that minimizes use of fossil fuels is one of the gargantuan tasks facing the IT industry, yet at least one company has a simple solution: move to Iceland. With cooling freely provided by nature and access to both geothermal and hydroelectric energy, the UK-based co-location vendor Verne Global says it is on the verge of opening a “100% carbon neutral” data center before ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Iceland   Europe   Verne Global