Top 5 Data Center Stories, Week of May 18th

Explore Data Center Knowledge (May 19 2012) Construction , Fuel Cell , Solar , Cloud Computing

...nter news by subscribing to our RSS feed and daily e-mail updates, or by following us on Twitter or Facebook or join our LinkedIn Group – Data Center Knowledge. (Read Full Article)

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Will Facebook’s IPO Have a Web Hosting Impact?

Explore Web Host Industry Review (May 17 2012)

... how to do it safely and effectively.” Patent infringement could also have negative implications on Facebook’s products. According to Rich Miller at Data Center Knowledge, in April Yahoo claimed that Facebook’s data center and server technology may infringe upon patents owned by Yahoo and the companies it a... (Read Full Article)

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Top 10 Data Center Stories, April 2012

Explore Data Center Knowledge (May 9 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing

...ies of the month. So with our apologies and without further ado, here’s the most popular stories on Data Center Knowledge for April 2012: Interxion Readies Staff ‘Sleeping Pods’ for Olympics – April 12 Apple: Greenpeace’s......uild Cloud Data Center in Wyoming -April 9 Major Data Centers Weather Tornadoes in Dallas – April 3 Facebook’s North Carolina Data Center Goes Live – April 20 Another Major Data Center for Prineville ... (Read Full Article)

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Top 5 Data Center Stories, Week of May 5

Explore Data Center Knowledge (May 5 2012) Construction , Fuel Cell , Cloud Computing

...nter news by subscribing to our RSS feed and daily e-mail updates, or by following us on Twitter or Facebook or join our LinkedIn Group – Data Center Knowledge. (Read Full Article)

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iNET Interactive Acquires Data Center Knowledge

Explore Data Center Knowledge (May 4 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing

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Top 5 Data Center Stories, Week of April 20

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Apr 21 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing

...nter news by subscribing to our RSS feed and daily e-mail updates, or by following us on Twitter or Facebook or join our LinkedIn Group – Data Center Knowledge. (Read Full Article)

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Optimizing Data Center Capital Costs with Intelligent IT

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Apr 20 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing , Servers

...rted to innovate outside the data center infrastructure box when it comes to this cost. For example Facebook’s recently announced data center in Sweden will forego about 70 percent of back-up generator capabi......f capital infrastructure costs for huge data centers. Industry Perspectives is a content channel at Data Center Knowledge highlighting thought leadership in the data center arena. See our guidelines and submission process... (Read Full Article)

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Cloud's dirty laundry to be aired by Greenpeace

Explore crn.com.au (Apr 18 2012) Construction , Emissions , Fossil Fuel , Fuel Cell

...ned in the report. How service providers fare The report looks at Amazon Web Services, Apple, Dell, Facebook, Google, HP, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Rackspace, Salesforce, Akamai, Twitter and Yahoo. Google ranke......hich will each be the largest of their kind in the country,” Apple said in a statement published by Data Center Knowledge. (Read Full Article)

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Apple slaps back at Greenpeace for dirty-cloud report

Explore Technology News (Apr 17 2012) Construction , Fossil Fuel , Fuel Cell , Wind

...mber was incorrect but didn't offer a more accurate number. Today, Apple issued a statement, run at Data Center Knowledge, which for the first time disclosed the expected power usage. It also notes that the facility in Ma......nwhile, have taken a number of steps over the years to lower energy use at their data centers, with Facebook even open-sourcing its efficient hardware designs and Google investing in wind ... (Read Full Article)

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Resuscitating Legacy Data Centers: A Darwinian Approach

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Apr 17 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing

...ributed to the massive data center construction era we are now living in – hello Google, Amazon and Facebook! Given this situation, it behooves the facility managers, IT personnel and engineers to keep these ......olve to meet the demands of a future data generation. Industry Perspectives is a content channel at Data Center Knowledge highlighting thought leadership in the data center arena. See our guidelines and submission process... (Read Full Article)

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How Go Daddy Keeps 52 Million Domains Humming

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Apr 17 2012) Construction

...les, Chicago and Ashburn, Virginia, along with international facilities in Amsterdam and Singapore. Data Center Knowledge recently went inside the company’s huge primary data center in Phoenix, and had a chance to discuss......mpt social media sites encourage users to encrypt their visits, a step already taken by Twitter and Facebook. “There’s a movement out there to require SSL,” said Thayer. “I think over time we’re likely ... (Read Full Article)

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Microsoft ‘Data Plants’ to Combine Servers & Power

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Apr 16 2012) Construction , Wind , Cloud Computing , Servers

...l be published this week. Belady discussed his vision for data plants last May in an interview with Data Center Knowledge, and in a subsequent blog post titled “The Disappearing Data Center.” A key goal is to reduce the e......Data Center.” A key goal is to reduce the energy loss that occurs in power transmission. Google and Facebook have both retooled the power distribution systems inside their data centers ... (Read Full Article)

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Top 5 Data Center Stories, Week of April 14

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...nter news by subscribing to our RSS feed and daily e-mail updates, or by following us on Twitter or Facebook or join our LinkedIn Group – Data Center Knowledge. (Read Full Article)

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eBay covers Utah data center roof with solar panels

Explore GigaOM (Apr 11 2012) Construction , Solar , Cloud Computing

...e usually small enough that they only power a portion of the data center’s needs. According to this Data Center Knowledge post from 2010, the Topaz data center has a 30 MW substation nearby, and the first of the four phas......both a financial investment, and as a way to explore clean power development near its data centers. Facebook has a lot smaller solar panel project, at 100 kW ... (Read Full Article)

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Another Perspective on Solar at Data Centers

Explore Renewable Energy World (Mar 29 2012) Construction , Solar

...nly a small fraction of the data center’s energy use.   For instance, the 100 kW solar array at the Facebook Prineville Oregon Facility will provide for only 0.4% of the facility’s overall power needs.  He al......olar. Another common criticism is that solar requires a lot of space. According to Rich Miller from Data Center Knowledge, it takes about seven acres of solar panels to generate one ... (Read Full Article)

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I Love Solar Power But...

Explore Perspectives (Mar 18 2012) Construction , Solar

...nted to look at isApple’s facility at Maiden, North Carolina, often referred as iDataCenter.  Inthe Facebook example discussed above, the solar array was so small as to have nearlyno impact on the composition... (Read Full Article)

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Top 5 Data Center Stories, Week of March 10th

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Mar 10 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing , Servers

For your weekend reading, here’s a recap of five noteworthy stories that appeared on Data Center Knowledge this past week. Enjoy! With Xeon E5, Intel Targets the Data Center - Intel this week unveiled the n......t and general manager of the Datacenter and Connected Systems Group. “And we mean ALL data centers. Facebook Seeks Patent on Cooling Automation – Engineers from Facebook are seeking a patent on a data center ... (Read Full Article)

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Top 5 Data Center Stories, Week of Feb. 24th

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Feb 25 2012) Construction , Fuel Cell , Solar , Cloud Computing

For your weekend reading, here’s a recap of five noteworthy stories that appeared on Data Center Knowledge this past week. Enjoy! Apple Confirms Plans for Oregon Data Center – Apple has bought 160 acres of ......, Oregon, and plans to build a major data center in the rural town, which is already home to a huge Facebook data center campus. A deed filed last week shows that Apple has purchased the ... (Read Full Article)

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Vantage plants energy-efficient data center in the Valley

Explore GigaOM (Feb 15 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing , Servers

...ss said. The two-story design gives the data center a “penthouse” cooling system along the lines of Facebook’s state-of-the-art data center in Prineville, Ore., according to Data Center Knowledge. V2 is a 9 MW facility but can run at 18 MW. “We plumbed it to run at a much higher level of power.... (Read Full Article)

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Top 5 Data Center Stories, Week of Feb. 4

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Feb 4 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing , Servers

...Photo: Switch) For your weekend reading, here’s a recap of five noteworthy stories that appeared on Data Center Knowledge this past week. Enjoy! Facebook’s $1 Billion Data Center Network – Facebook has invested more than $1 billion in the infrastructure that powers its social network, which now ... (Read Full Article)

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Top 10 Data Center Stories: January 2012

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Feb 1 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing

...design – camouflaging a data center as a residence – clearly led the pack of the best-read items on Data Center Knowledge. There was also interest in stories on the federal government’s plans to close data centers, Facebook’s spending on its facility in Oregon, and a guest column on audit standards confusion in the indust... (Read Full Article)

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The era of the 100 MW data center

Explore GigaOM (Jan 31 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing

The first phase of Facebook’s data center in Prineville, Oregon will have a capacity for 28 MW of power, points out Data Center Knowledge. That’s about the same amount of power used by all the homes and businesses in the rest of the Oreg... (Read Full Article)

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Top 5 Data Center Stories: Week of Jan. 28

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jan 28 2012) Construction , Power and Cooling

For your weekend reading, here’s a recap of five noteworthy stories that appeared on Data Center Knowledge this past week. Enjoy! Google Spent $951 Million on Data Centers in 4Q – Google invested nearly ......ories: Week of Jan. 28 + By: Colleen Miller January 28th, 2012 + + Tweet + + + The exterior of the Facebook data center in Prineville, Oregon, which is involved in a tax controversy with Oregon officials. (P... (Read Full Article)

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Best of Data Center Knowledge: December 2011

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jan 3 2012) Construction , Fossil Fuel , Cloud Computing

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