The Green Data Center Opportunity

Explore Relocate (Feb 27 2012) Construction , Carbon Footprint , Cloud Computing , Servers

...growth in global demand for computing power. (Source: DEA-543 © 2012 General Electric Company ) The US Department of Energy is focused on “green” initiatives to improve energy efficiency and have set a target to create ener......now in the spotlight for energy optimization with manufacturers such as General Electric. (Source:  DOE 2011) The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), The Green Grid and other ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   General Electric   The Green Grid   Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

LBNL Plans For the Exascale Data Center

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Feb 16 2012) Construction , Supercomputer

Last week, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) broke ground on a facility that will house its vision for the supercomputer of the future. T...... petaflop levels to exaFLOPS (1,000,000,000,000,000,000 Floating Point Operations per Second ), the U.S. Department of Energy has recognized that energy consumption for powering that compute load is a particular challenge. * ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory   Department of Energy

Green Grid Open Data Center Alliance to Drive Efficient Cloud Standards

Explore Web Host Industry Review (Nov 9 2011) Cloud Computing , Servers

...igerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers, ASP SaaS Industry Consortium, BCS, Data Center Pulse, and US Department of Energy, and US Environmental Protection Agency. PREVIOUS: Rackspace Cloud: Private Edition Backs OpenStack with Managed Support * Start a New Dis... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   The Green Grid   Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory   US Environmental Protection Agency

JouleX Officer Serves on DOE Steering Committee

Explore Green Technology (Oct 21 2011)

...ner (DCEP) IT-Specialist Program. Davidson will work in collaboration with representatives from the Department of Energy (DOE), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and ANCIS Incorporated. JouleX notes that this committee is responsible for developing curri... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory   Department of Energy

NetApp Provides Cloud Storage for US Department of Energy Supercomputer

Explore Web Host Industry Review (Sep 29 2011) Cloud Computing , Storage

...to provide the storage foundation for its Sequoia supercomputer. NetApp Provides Cloud Storage for US Department of Energy Supercomputer * By Justin Lee, September 29, 2011 * + Tweet + + + Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California Related Topics: customer win, cloud computing, netapp, storage technol......ble performance, and secure storage are mission critical, according to the press release. LLNL is a DoE/National Nuclear Security Administration laboratory that is devoted to ensuring the ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory   Department of Energy

Power Assure CTO Provides Insights into Data Center Energy Efficiency Rating ...

Explore MyHostNews (Aug 23 2011) Cloud Computing , Servers

...nergyStar rating system. To help IT managers more accurately determine when to refresh servers, the EPA created an EnergyStar rating system. But EnergyStar has a fundamental flaw similar to the one found......nology Ventures, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Good Energies, Point Judith Capital, and a grant from the Department of Energy. Power Assure partners include ABB, Cisco, Dell, IBM, Intel, Raritan, UL and VMware. Research, eval... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Intel   Gartner   Cisco

FedEx Unveils "Green" Data Center in Colorado Springs

Explore Corporate Social Responsibility News (Feb 16 2011) Power and Cooling

...e Green Grid, of which FedEx is a member, developed the PUE. The organization collaborated with the U.S. Department of Energy, the Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star Program and others to define a common set of metrics to measure data center efficienc... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   The Green Grid   Uptime Institute   Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Sensing the Future of Greener Data Centers

Explore Scientific Computing (Jan 10 2011) Monitoring , Carbon Footprint , Servers

...ctricity consumption for a tab of $4.5 billion and growing. The problem is worrying enough that the U.S. Department of Energy recently awarded $47 million in grants for data center efficiency research. Cost and carbon footpr......at play, says Kathy Yelick, associate laboratory director for the computing sciences directorate at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). Performance is suffering, too. “The heat, even at the chip level, is ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Google   Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory   Department of Energy

Berkeley Lab Helping China Boost Energy Efficiency of Data Centers

Explore Web Host Industry Review (Dec 21 2010) Servers

The US Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (www.lbl.gov) is working with China to improve the energy efficiency of the country's data centers,... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory   Department of Energy

Clustered Systems is Hot Property in Chill Off 2

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Oct 15 2010) Servers

...ngs compared to the test results,” said the report on the Clustered Systems technology, prepared by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Next Up: DOE-Funded Platform at SLAC Clustered Systems’ technology will now be deployed in an ultra-dense liquid...... power density of 80 kilowatts per cabinet. The project, which earned a $2.8 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy, will also incorporate technology from the Edison Materials Technology ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory   Department of Energy

IEEE Enables Reduction in Network Energy Footprint with the New IEEE 802.3az Standard

Explore businesswire.com (Oct 5 2010) Carbon Footprint , Networking

...nett, Chair of the IEEE 802.3az Energy-Efficient Ethernet Task Force and Senior Network Engineer at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. “The great advantage of using products supporting EEE is that there is no complex configuration ne......andardizing this important new technology. Steve Cotter, manager of ESnet, Energy Sciences Network, U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) Enabling DoE scientists to transmit their data more efficiently is at the core of ESnet ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory   Department of Energy

Green Storage – The Present and the Promising Future

Explore Enterprise Storage Forum (Sep 27 2010) Storage

...ough establishing what to measure and how. In April, The Green Grid announced an agreement with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Save Now and Federal Energy Management Programs, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) ENERGY STAR Program, the European Union Code of Conduct, Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and In... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   The Green Grid   Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory   Department of Energy

Yahoo!'s New Lockport, New York Data Center Provides Jobs in a Depressed Area

Explore Associated Content (Sep 20 2010)

...y use, so that its power usage rating is nearly half that of the industry average. According to the EPA, data centers across the U.S. account for about 1.5% of our country's electricity usage. The Lockpo......ool the facility. In recognition, the company received a $9.9 million sustainability grant from the U.S. Department of Energy, which is the largest award provided under the Green IT ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory   Department of Energy   Yahoo !

Yahoo’s New Facility Shows Trend, Growing Importance of Green Data Centers

Explore The New York Times (Sep 20 2010) Wind , Cloud Computing , Servers , Storage

...r efficiency measures. Tags: data storage center, energy efficiency Companies: accenture, Amazon, DOE, EPA, Facebook, Google, Greenpeace, Microsoft, nokia, Power Assure, Yahoo Yahoo’s New Facility Shows Tre......ling for every dollar spent on electricity. It was built in part with a $9.9 million grant from the Department of Energy. The issue of green data storage is one that’s growing in importance. The EPA has expressed concern about ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Greenpeace   Amazon.com   Google

Commercial Buildings Guzzle 37% of CA’s Energy

Explore environmentalleader.com (Jul 15 2010) Emissions

...cording to a new report by Next 10. Related Stories Energy Star Commercial Buildings Up 25% In 2007 DOE: 50% Energy Savings Possible Without Solar L.A., San Fran, Houston Top EPA’s Energy Star Building List Related Topics Construction Construction & Refitting Economics Efficien...... commercial building equipment technicians, building operators, and energy auditors. Meanwhile, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced a new pilot program to further improve energy efficiency ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory   Department of Energy   CA

Energy Star for Data Centers: Help or Hype?

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jul 6 2010) Servers

...to grow as communications, information processing and storage demand increase rapidly. In 2006, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimated that data centers represented approximately 1.5 percent of the United State’s total elec......ports or snapshots won’t cut it. Hype or Help? The Energy Star program, a joint venture between the EPA and DOE, claims to have saved Americans approximately $17 billion on their utility bills since the ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory   Department of Energy   Data Center Knowledge

Keeping Out The Bad Guys

Explore Forbes.com (May 3 2010) Cloud Computing

...or and how do you stop them? To shed light on this world, Forbes tapped Tom Pyke, former CIO of the U.S. Department of Energy. Prior to that, he was CIO for the Commerce Department and at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Nuclear secrets and the Internet go tog......vided. We virtualized most of our servers because it made good sense and it was green. Where is the ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Google   Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Energy Efficiency Metrics Going Global

Explore Relocate (Apr 8 2010) Servers

...erning energy efficiency metrics for data centers. Parties to the agreement include segments of the U.S. Department of Energy, as well as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) Energy Star program, Japan’s Ministry of Economy, the European Union Code of Conduct, and variou... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Intel   Google   Oracle

US, Europe, Japan agree on data center efficiency ...

Explore NetworkWorld.com (Apr 2 2010) Servers

... Orchestrated by the Green Grid, an industry consortium in the U.S., the agreement is backed by the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the European Union Code of Conduct and the Japan Ministry of Economy, according to a statement fro......ollows several meetings of stakeholders and interested parties. In January representatives from the EPA met with several data center industry groups from the U ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Europe   The Green Grid   ASHRAE

Trapping Sunlight with Silicon Nanowires

Explore Berkeley Lab News Center (Mar 3 2010) Solar

...efficiencies, the cost of this solar power is prohibitive for large-scale use. Researchers with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), however, are developing a new approach that could substantially reduce these costs....... Berkeley Lab’s Materials Sciences Division, and the University of California Berkeley’s Chemistry Department. He is a leading authority on semiconductor nanowires – one-dimensional strips of materials whose w... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory   Department of Energy

New federal data center energy-efficiency guidelines on tap

Explore Data Center (Feb 26 2010) Cloud Computing , Servers

...veloping widely accepted standards for measuring a data center's energy efficiency. Along with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is working with six data center industry groups: 7x24 Exchange, the American Society of Heating, R... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Google   The Green Grid   Uptime Institute

Top Data Center Groups Meet, Discuss Efficiency

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Feb 4 2010) Servers

...f The Green Grid, the 7×24 Exchange, The Uptime Institute, the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Energy Star Program, the U.S. Green Building Council, and the HVAC industry group ASHRAE. * Top D......d reduce energy consumption,” according to an announcement by ICF International on behalf of the EPA. “Member organizations are committed to applying and promoting ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   The Green Grid   Uptime Institute   ASHRAE

DOE Adds Comprehensive Energy Web Site, Building Energy Use Lab

Explore environmentalleader.com (Dec 16 2009) Construction , Emissions

As the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory dissects the possibilities of building energy efficiency, a government Web site is making energy da...... data and resources more available to the public. Both efforts come as a result of funding from the Department of Energy. The Berkeley Lab is getting $15.9 million in stimulus funding to build a “national user facilit... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory   Department of Energy

AT&T Joins U.S. Effort to Reduce Energy Usage Intensity

Explore Yahoo! Finance (Dec 3 2009) Emissions

T&T* yesterday joined the U.S. Department of Energy's Save Energy Now LEADER initiative, which asks that companies pledge to reduce their energy intens......he following additional steps toward greater energy efficiency: Through Save Energy Now LEADER, the DOE is setting energy reduction targets that it believes will create demand for energy efficient techno... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   The Green Grid   Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory   Steven Chu