Articles from Relocate

1. Niagara County Says Yahoo!

   Explore Article Relocate (Jul 8 2010)

   Yahoo Inc. has finished constructing the first phase of its data center and has begun work on the second phase at a 30-acre site in Niagara County. Niagara County is in the northwest corner of New York State, and it is bordered on three sides by the waters of Lake Ontario, Niagara River, and Tonawanda Creek. According to David Dibble, Yahoo executive, the site features a “brand new design and engineering approach focused on energy efficiency.” The Town of Lockport has been witnessing the construction of the $150 million data center since June 2009. Yahoo chose Niagara County because of ... (Read Full Article)
   

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2. EuroCloud: A Green Data Center Effort

   Explore Article Relocate (Jul 1 2010) Servers

   Companies, governments, and the public around the world are becoming increasingly aware of concerns regarding limited energy supplies and the ever-growing demand for that energy. In particular, concern is growing over the data center sector, which is an up-and-coming energy-hog market. Trends toward reduced energy consumption in cooling and other supporting infrastructure for data centers have been increasingly important, but data center operators must eventually turn to increased efficiency of IT equipment in the data center. To this end, the processor-design company has begun an effort in Europe to establish a “green” data center that provides drastic efficiency improvements over ... (Read Full Article)
   

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3. Iceland as a Prime Data Center Location

   Explore Article Relocate (Jun 30 2010) Geothermal , Cloud Computing , Servers

   Data centers are well known as power hogs, with their extensive information technology equipment (having its own power needs) coupled with equally extensive cooling equipment (which further increases power usage). As energy costs rise and as the political climate increasingly frowns on fossil-fuel-based energy, companies are responding by searching for ways to reduce costs, reduce their environmental impact, and rely more on “green” energy sources. In response to the needs of such companies, one country is beckoning: Iceland. The land of fire and ice offers a number of key advantages that companies can exploit to improve their image, become more ... (Read Full Article)
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   Iceland   Verne Global   Tate Cantrell

4. Practical Steps toward a Green Data Center

   Explore Article Relocate (Jun 22 2010) Monitoring , Emissions , Cloud Computing , Servers

   Energy efficiency and reduced power consumption in the data center are becoming less about simply reducing costs and more about improving environmental friendliness and about keeping government regulators at bay. As public awareness of environmental and energy issues grows (and as the political climate becomes increasingly hostile to industries—such as the data center segment—that are power hogs), companies must find ways to reduce their energy usage. Government regulators and increasing demand for energy are both contributing to increasing energy prices. In the face of ever-increasing demand for IT services, this is no small task, and making significant reductions in a ... (Read Full Article)
   

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5. Put Your Data Center through Its ABCs

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

   Without a doubt, making data centers greener makes sense, not just for the company’s financial coffers but also in terms of environmental impact. The widely used definition of a "greenness" states that a data center is green if it is designed for maximum energy efficiency and minimum environmental impact. Such a data center will also ensure that it invests time and money in systems and techniques that will lead to minimization of the building's footprint. These systems and technques could encompass landscaping, waste recycling, alternative fuel or energy sources, managing or optimizing power flows through the data center, and so ... (Read Full Article)
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   The Green Grid   Forbes   LEED

6. The C Suite versus Data Center Management

   Explore Article Relocate (May 20 2010) Cloud Computing

   The C Suite versus Data Center ManagementData Center JournalAccording to Michael Rowan of Virtual Strategy Magazine (“The Future of Data Center Energy Management”), “operational energy costs are now approaching and ... (Read Full Article)
   

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7. Data Center Greenwashing? Time Will Tell If It Was

   Explore Article Relocate (Apr 29 2010) Carbon Footprint , Emissions , Fossil Fuel , Geothermal , Cloud Computing

   Every year around Earth Day, countless individuals and organizations look to make some type of contribution to the greener good of our planet. Many companies are making environmentally friendly gestures like donating a tree, organizing a quick promotion or offering a gift to a worthy cause. These are all great ways to commemorate the holiday, but it seems a lot of folks going down this route are simply buying into the holiday hype for a one-night stand with Mother Nature. With environmental concern at an all time high around the globe, now is the perfect time to reassess outdated practices ... (Read Full Article)
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   Iceland   Lisa Rhodes   Carbon Reduction Commitment

8. Energy Efficiency Metrics Going Global

   Explore Article Relocate (Apr 8 2010) Servers

   In the past decade, the number of data centers operated by the U.S. government has skyrocketed from 432 to more than 1,200. The agencies building these new facilities must have been adding capacity because they had filled their existing servers and space, right? Wrong. ”One of the most troubling aspects about the data centers is that in a lot of these cases, we’re finding that server utilization is actually around seven percent,” Federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra said Wednesday in an address at the Brookings Institute. That means some agencies have been investing in new data centers instead of ... (Read Full Article)
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   Cisco   The Green Grid   IBM

9. A Wordless World

   Explore Article Relocate (Mar 30 2010) Power and Cooling , Cloud Computing , Servers

   Imagine being in a cyber world where there were no words to look at! This unlikely scenario actually came to be for a couple of hours a few days back. Wikipedia and Wikimedia Foundation web sites went into failure mode when their data centre in Amsterdam, Europe overheated and set off a domino effect. When the servers could not take the heat, they switched themselves off to keep their data safe. In order to protect access to users, traffic was routed to Wikipedia’s Florida cluster. Though this is their standard failover procedure, it did not go as per plan. This ... (Read Full Article)
   

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10. Joining IT and Facilities

    Explore Article Relocate (Feb 22 2010) Cloud Computing

    Information technology (IT) has been the department responsible for supporting and developing technology that is key to most companies throughout the world. The IT group originally developed these technologies in glass-enclosed rooms filled with mainframes and very expensive storage units. But as time proceeded, computer power was distributed in many companies. The IT department has been responsible for the development, installation, and operation of the computer systems used. This department has usually not been responsible for utility costs of the operation. Originally, the electricity and space used by the department was seldom charged back to departments, just as this was ... (Read Full Article)
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Uptime Institute   SunGard   U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

11. Cool Sensor Technology For Hot IBM Data Center

    Explore Article Relocate (Feb 9 2010) Cloud Computing

    Sensitive IT equipment inside data centers can be affected by heat and hence the need to keep the temperatures under control. The conventional recommended preferred temperature range for data center interiors had been set at 77 degrees Fahrenheit by ASHRAE (American Society for Heating Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Engineers). Now with the advances in technology the new limit defined by ASHRAE has been raised by a few degrees putting it at 80.6 degrees. IBM has planned to implement this recommendation in one of their latest data centers built at North Carolina. The data center will also utilize outside cold air ... (Read Full Article)
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   ASHRAE   IBM   U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

12. Carbon Dioxide, Cap and Trade, and the Data Center

    Explore Article Relocate (Feb 2 2010) Cap and Trade , Carbon Tax , Emissions , Fossil Fuel , Geothermal

    Regardless of what you may think about anthropogenic global warming (climate change caused by human activity) or the recent scandal centering on the ethics and motivations of certain climate scientists, carbon dioxide is a substance that is in the political dog house. Residents of member states in the European Union have already seen the institution of a cap and trade system designed to reduce carbon dioxide emissions through government regulation; residents of the United States may well be in for a similar system. Although data centers generally do not, by themselves, spew carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, their operation does ... (Read Full Article)
    

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13. Super Guzzlers?

    Explore Article Relocate (Dec 15 2009) Supercomputer

    Environmentally conscious people often support a slower pace of life, with lesser amounts of consumption. Stopping to smell the roses may be great but in the data center industry it could spell disaster for a company. Ergo, enter the monsters of the cyber world – the Supercomputers. On one hand, you need supercomputers to cope up with the necessity to operate faster and faster and crunch through ever- increasing amounts of data and on the other hand, there are mounting concerns about the power required to drive and cool these mammoths. Imagine hot CPUs scrunched together in one small space, ... (Read Full Article)
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   IBM   Oak Ridge National Laboratory

14. Put Your Data in a Container – In Japan

    Explore Article Relocate (Nov 30 2009) Cloud Computing , Servers

    Internet Initiative Japan Inc is a Tokyo based company that provides internet connectivity and network related services. It has a deep focus on innovation. Putting this commitment into practice, the company is working on a concept of a modular data center park. It is starting this off by operating a data center housed in a metal container and cooled by the air outside. Sound familiar? This will be a path breaking venture for any company in Japan. Electric power is one of the biggest cost centers in a data center. Within this cost factor, 40 % goes towards the cooling ... (Read Full Article)
    

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15. Mile-High City Goes Green

    Explore Article Relocate (Nov 10 2009) Construction , Carbon Footprint , Wind , Cloud Computing

    Going from Wyoming to Denver, Green House Data is expanding operations of its collocation and managed hosting business. Green House Data is headquartered at Cheyenne, Wyoming and pitches itself as an environmentally conscious and responsible company. It has a 10,000 square foot data center at Cheyenne. It now notches up a new office space in downtown Denver to cater to its growing Front Range business. It is a sign of the times that the company is keeping up with a demand for not only growing markets but also a need to locate in eco friendly hosting and collocation climes. (Read Full Article)
    

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16. How to keep up with power densities – Liquid cooling – better accept it…Maybe

    Explore Article Relocate (Nov 10 2009) Power and Cooling , Servers

    There is no denying that power densities in data centers are not coming down anytime soon. Some predict figures of 25kW per cabinet and more. Processors are faster, but are still energy hogs even though they are using less energy. The servers that house processors come equipped with dual cords for redundancy which takes up breaker space. Power is constantly in demand in a data center, but to keep this flowing requires cooling for the heat generated from the equipment that is soaking in all that power. As power densities in a data center increase the threshold for air cooling ... (Read Full Article)
    

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17. Colo's going for LEED

    Explore Article Relocate (Nov 10 2009) Construction , Servers

    Is it all marketing hype or is there legitimacy to the number of data centers that are attaining LEED certification for their facilities? It’s a little of both. Green IT or energy efficiency in IT is in vogue and from what we can interpret the reasons initially was to offer cost saving solutions to a facility that is typically known as an energy hog. An energy efficient data center is an oxymoron and if you can find ways to save costs then it is a win-win for the company and environment. The motives are changing beyond just saving a buck, ... (Read Full Article)
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   LEED   US Green Building Council   Department of Energy

18. Ashrae Makes Information on Datacenters More Accessible in CD Form

    Explore Article Relocate (Oct 13 2009) Construction , Power and Cooling

    It is estimated that $2 billion is wasted nationally due to data center inefficiencies. That’s why the valuable information found in ASHRAE’s Datacom Series—which provides guidance on ways to plan, build and monitor datacenters in ways that are both energy efficient and cost effective—has been compiled into one easily searchable CD. The “Data Center Design and Operation-ASHRAE Datacom Series” CD will allow a user to search across all previous published books in the Datacom Series simultaneously, as well as have the option to either print information directly from the CD or copy or paste into another document. (Read Full Article)
    

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19. Free Advice – Yet Useful

    Explore Article Relocate (Oct 8 2009) Power and Cooling

    A critical discussion among technology providers, end users and companies is data center energy efficiency. Most environmentalists are concerned about the impact that data centers have on the environment and the eco-system. There are several measures going on to minimize if not stop such effects and try to improvise upon the green-friendliness of data centers. One of the organizations which hardly need an introduction is the Green Grid, which is a consortium of IT professionals striving to raise the energy efficiency of data centers. It has developed data center cooling maps and calculators which would be accessible to the data ... (Read Full Article)
    

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20. Going the Platinum Way

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

    Gold is passé. 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. The facilities are rated on energy conservation, recycled materials etc. When thinking of a data center it is hard to imagine that it could be energy 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 upcoming data center ... (Read Full Article)
    

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21. The Ice (land) on the (Data Center) Cake

    Explore Article Relocate (Sep 29 2009) Construction , Power and Cooling

    We know very well that a data center is literally a virtual source of heat and hence cooling problems are one of the most important and expensive ones to handle in case of any data center. Experts and engineers try their best to cool the data centers by trying out new ways and techniques of cooling, air flow and what not. It has been said that Mother Nature has the solution to all the problems of mankind and often the solutions provided by nature are much more viable and long term, than thought of by the most intelligent creates of ... (Read Full Article)
    

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22. Energy Regulation and Data Centers

    Explore Article Relocate (Sep 3 2009) Cap and Trade

    I understand “conservation”. Almost every weekend, I hike in mountains of Tennessee, North Carolina or Virginia. I enjoy the outdoors and am a good steward of both my land and the public lands I enjoy. While I am certain that I favor conservation, I don’t know if that’s synonymous with being “green”. A conservationist is interested in using as few resources as necessary to accomplish the same, or greater, productivity. “Green” proponents seem to prefer that production, specifically U.S. production, be reduced, whether this achieves an overall conservation of resources or not. The “green” movement should never have become the ... (Read Full Article)
    

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

23. Data Center Efficiency – It's in the Design

    Explore Article Relocate (Sep 2 2009) Construction , Power and Cooling

    Most companies undergoing data center projects have the mindset of cutting costs rather than helping the environment, however, they may want to adjust their focus. With data center greenhouse emissions set to overtake the airline industry in the next five to ten years, quadrupling by 2020, it has never been more critical for organizations to optimize their data center. If the cost savings are half as great for data centers as they have been for the airline industry, we will need to fasten our seatbelts. Data centers have always been power hogs, but the problem has accelerated in recent years. ... (Read Full Article)
    

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24. Keeping your data center lean, mean, ...

    Explore Article Relocate (Sep 2 2009) Emissions , Cloud Computing , Servers

    The rising energy costs of running a data center are gaining more and more attention as they are already in the range of $3.3 billion annually, according to IDC. As a result, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Department of Energy are now creating standard ratings for energy efficiency benchmarks, forcing companies to be more conscious of their energy use and environmental impact. Many companies, however, are wary of such new regulations and standards, as they think it’ll mean incurring new costs to meet them. On the contrary, there are cost-efficient ways to deliver immediate ROI while complying with environmental ... (Read Full Article)
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Uptime Institute   Interactive Data Corporation   U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

25. Coresite to add 2MW to LA Data Center

    Explore Article Relocate (Sep 1 2009) Carbon Footprint , Cloud Computing

    Coresite to add 2MW to LA Data CenterData Center JournalCoreSite continues to focus on energy efficiency in data center design and construction. The new Los Angeles data center space will feature 95%-efficient, ... (Read Full Article)
    

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26. Ashrae announces new book to prevent contamination in Datacom ...

    Explore Article Relocate (Jul 7 2009) Construction , Power and Cooling

    The growing use of outside air to keep a data center cool also requires special attention to the quality of that air. The introduction of outdoor air for data center cooling with an air economizer saves cooling energy but increases exposure of the electronic equipment to contamination, corrosion, and humidity excursions. Some of the problems that can result are short circuiting in the presence of ambient moisture (humidity). The electrical shorting occurs when ionic bridges are created by the dust particles accelerated by moisture from the environment. Data centers with airside economizers require real-time monitoring of the outdoor air. In ... (Read Full Article)
    

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