European Data Center Association to Launch at Data Centers Europe 2012

Explore Web Host Industry Review (May 8 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing

May 8, 2012 -- The new European Data Center Association will launch at the upcoming Data Centers Europe 2012 conference in Nice, France because of its regional audience and its reputation as the leading ...... Caterpillar, Joyent, Siemens and Scottish Development International and is supported by Microsoft, The Green Grid, eco, Data Center Pulse and the European Data Centre Association. The event includes an industry ex... (Read Full Article)

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Cool like Facebook: Where does free cooling make sense?

Explore GreenBiz.com (Apr 17 2012) Construction , Power and Cooling , Servers

...ee cooling. Now, a new set of maps will help other companies follow suit. At a conference in March, The Green Grid, a nonprofit aimed at improving energy efficiency at data centers, unveiled its updated free coolin......cooling can be used year round in more than 75 percent of North America and more than 97 percent of Europe, even in places with temperatures as high as 113 degrees Fahrenheit. Other ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Europe   The Green Grid   Facebook

Iceland Exports Energy as Data

Explore Technology Review (Apr 11 2012) Cloud Computing

...rs. Every decade or so, someone runs the numbers to see what it would cost to plug the country into Europe's electricity grid. Depending on where it made land, the cable would have to be around twice the le......s more valuable," says John Pflueger, principal environmental strategist for Dell and a director of Green Grid, an industry group. "Iceland can be a net exporter of information and derive ... (Read Full Article)

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Data Center Pulse IDs Top 10 Industry Challenges

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Mar 13 2012) Construction , Power and Cooling , Cloud Computing

... released in conjunction with last week’s Data Center Pulse Summit 2012 , which was held along with The Green Grid Technical Forum in San Jose, Calif. The 2012 list features some substantial changes from 2011 and p......es of electricity. Data Center Pulse sees potential for progress in approaches that have worked in Europe, where renewable power is more readily available than in the U.S. These include focusing business ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Europe   Google   Yahoo

The Green Grid Goes More International and More Practical by Peter Judge

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Mar 11 2012)

March is a good time for efficient data center activists. It’s the month when the Green Grid holds its annual members’ meeting, and we get a burst of useful material, advising how to use energ......ore practical focus. The Grid’s release calls out highlights, which include material from Japan and Europe, as well as updates to data center tools. Japan has been the centre of lots of activity ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Europe   The Green Grid   ASHRAE

Green Grid Updates Cooling Maps With New ASHRAE Classes

Explore TechWeekEurope UK (Mar 10 2012) Construction , Power and Cooling , Servers

...anned to widen the temperature and humidity ranges for servers in the new version of its guidelines.The Green Grid maps now include these updated guidelines. Green Grid Updates Cooling Maps With New ASHRAE Classes The Green Grid has updated its free data centre cooling maps to allow managers to take advantage of free air-cooli......vironmental Allowable ranges are used to govern temperatures and humidity in the data centre,” said ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Europe   The Green Grid   ASHRAE

New ASHRAE classes enable 100% free cooling almost anywhere

Explore DatacenterDynamics (Mar 7 2012) Construction , Power and Cooling , Emissions , Cloud Computing , Servers

...ures can use free cooling all year long, according to new “free cooling maps” released this week by The Green Grid. The data center industry organization updated its cooling maps to take into account new allowable ......existing ASHRAE classes could fully cool that equipment using fresh in 75% on North America, 97% of Europe and only 14% of Japan. ASHRAE expended its range of allowable temperature and humidity for certain ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Europe   The Green Grid   ASHRAE

Facebook's new server farm will be naturally cool

Explore Energy Efficiency News (Nov 3 2011) Power and Cooling , Hydro , Servers

...Center will be powered by nearby hydropower plants and handle data from 800 million users mainly in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The data centre, which is the company's first outside the US where it ......energy efficient IT (29-Jul) Greenpeace urges IT giants to switch to renewable energy (31-Mar 2010) Green Grid map reveals free cooling for data centres (15-Apr 2009) (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Apple   Greenpeace   Europe

Interxion Brick Lane Data Centre To Use Green Energy

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Sep 1 2011) Emissions , Servers

...ered using 100 percent renewable energy. Interxion operates 28 data centres in 11 countries across Europe, and the decision to move its Brick Lane facility to 100 percent renewable energy is part of its ef......s to ongoing political discussions around the reduction of CO2 emissions – working with groups like the Green Grid and the Uptime Institute to set clear standards and best practice within the industry,” he added. I... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Europe   The Green Grid   Uptime Institute

Pair Plans 'Grid Zero' Data Center in Las Vegas

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jul 15 2011) Power and Cooling , Solar

... view, this allows us to reach everyone in North America pretty efficiently. Our customers based in Europe might prefer our Pittsburgh facilities, and our customers in the Pacific Rim might prefer the Las V...... data center to operate at a Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) of 0.96. The PUE metric championed by The Green Grid compares a facility’s total power usage to the amount of power used by the ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Europe   The Green Grid   US Green Building Council

Pair Plans ‘Grid Zero’ Data Center in Las Vegas

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jul 15 2011) Power and Cooling , Solar

... view, this allows us to reach everyone in North America pretty efficiently. Our customers based in Europe might prefer our Pittsburgh facilities, and our customers in the Pacific Rim might prefer the Las V......s data center to operate at a Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) of 0.96. The PUE metric championed by The Green Grid compares a facility’s total power usage to the amount of power used by ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Europe   The Green Grid   US Green Building Council

Possible truce For Greenpeace and data centers - by Peter Judge

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Jul 5 2011)

...shire, and Dr David Snelling of Fujitsu Labs, who is also vice chair for the technical workgroup of the Green Grid in Europe, along with analyst Andy Lawrence of The 451 Group. The encounter started with Bitterlin saying h... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Apple   Greenpeace   Europe

Europe adds new green data centers, New Jersey overbuilds - by doug mohney

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Jun 16 2011)

Skimming through press releases this week, I came across two new green data center announcements in Europe along with a piece in the Wall Street Journal of overbuilt data center space in New Jersey.  I wond......ity as a pan-European provider of power-intensive data center services. The company participates in the Green Grid Consortium and is also a founding member of the Uptime Institute’s European Chapter and a member ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Europe   The Green Grid   Uptime Institute

Colocation Firm Interxion Powering Brussels Data Center with Renewable Energy

Explore Web Host Industry Review (Jun 15 2011) Cloud Computing

...ustin Lee, June 15, 2011 * + Tweet + + An image of Interxion's Brussels data center Related Topics: europe green hosting interxion data centers belgium (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Colocation pro......hieving data center efficiency. Interxion marketing director Ali Moinuddin is also the co-chair for The Green Grid European Communications Committee and actively participates in identifying and promoting best pract... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Greenpeace   Europe   The Green Grid

Equinix Using Renewable Energy in Paris Data Centers

Explore seekingalpha.com (May 16 2011) Cloud Computing

...CentersSeeking AlphaThe company is not new to green data center initiatives. Equinix is a member of the Green Grid, a participant in the US EPA Energy Star Data Center Rating initiative, and its employees are regul......focuses on issues of efficiency and sustainability. In 2008 Equinix won the first ever Data Centers Europe Green Award. As far as Europe is concerned, it may be worth remembering that all of Equinix ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Europe   The Green Grid   ASHRAE

Cisco Opens Green Data Centre In Texas

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Apr 19 2011) Cloud Computing

...data centre facilities,” Manville said. Cisco already is working on plans for another MVDC setup in Europe, and is considering a third somewhere in Asia, he said. The goal is to use the three pairs of produ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Europe   Cisco   The Green Grid

How To Use The Green Grid Maturity Model

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Apr 6 2011)

The Green Grid, the best-known group devoted to making data centres more efficient, announced a model earlier this......o help users measure how sustainable their data centre is. Despite a briefing on the model, eWEEK Europe was a bit sceptical. So we decided to look again, with the creator of the model, Harkeeret “Harqs”... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Europe   The Green Grid   LEED

A cloud services data centre that is both energy and cost efficient...

Explore blogs.computerworlduk.com (Apr 5 2011) Power and Cooling , Servers

...Fujitsu spent around $70M to get a data centre that became the Uptime Institute's first Tier III in Europe, and then to go on and run the facility with an energy efficiency above 70% or the Green Grid's PUE of at least 1.4. In other words, it uses about half the energy of typical data centres in the... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Fujitsu   Europe   The Green Grid

European Data Centers Get LEED-Like Sustainability Rating

Explore GreenBiz.com (Jan 12 2011) Construction , Cloud Computing , Servers

...nhouse gas emissions down once the compute facilities are up and running. And although groups like The Green Grid have developed a number of metrics to help green IT operations for IT managers and CIOs, green data......eir energy efficiency," Zahl Limbuwala, chair of the BCS's data center specialist group, told eWeek Europe. "We have the EU Code of Conduct for Data Centers, but the issue with that is ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Europe   United Kingdom   The Green Grid

Green Data Center Resolutions for 2011 - Peter Judge

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Dec 20 2010)

...atory pressure they experience is usually through building codes, which use the BREEAM standards in Europe and the LEED standards in the US.   Behind these, the US heating and cooling industry’s ASHRAE ......ring 2011, they multiplied. Frankly, I’m in danger of losing track. At the basic measurement level, the Green Grid has extended its PUE scheme with the CUE measure for carbon use by a data center, and ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Europe   The Green Grid   ASHRAE

Green Grid Creates Metrics for Carbon and Water

Explore pcworld.com (Dec 2 2010) Monitoring , Carbon Tax , Emissions , Cloud Computing , Servers

The Green Grid consortium, which developed the widely-used PUE metric for measuring energy efficiency in data cent......mentally responsible. Greenpeace has targeted cloud computing as a source of global warming, and in Europe there are already carbon taxes for big energy consumers. Most data centers use vast amounts of wate... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Greenpeace   Europe   The Green Grid

Data Centers Tighten Energy Belts

Explore The New York Times (Nov 4 2010) Emissions , Solar , Cloud Computing , Servers

...nter groups in the world, said that although the environmental reputation his company had gained in Europe was originally driven by financial considerations, customers had since become acutely aware of th......h data center owners and operators, defined as “participants.” The project is partially inspired by the Green Grid initiative, a similar set of U.S. industry guidelines for the data center sector, and guidelines se... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Europe   The Green Grid   Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

The most energy efficient colocation facility in Europe

Explore Free Online Press Release Distribution (Oct 5 2010) Servers

... Centre uses fresh air cooling & overhead supply to become the most efficient shared data centre in Europe. Custodian Data Centre, based at The Maidstone TV Studios in Kent, are using 5 times less energy t......ommendations of the Data Center Metrics Coordination Taskforce, sponsored by 7x24 Exchange, ASHRAE, The Green Grid, Silicon Valley Leadership Group, U.S. Department of Energy Save Energy Now Program, U.S. Environme... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Europe   The Green Grid   Uptime Institute

Growth Predicted for European Market

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Sep 24 2010)

New reports on the London data center market and Western Europe show increases in demand, but fundamental shifts underway. Meanwhile, European colocation provider ......and, but fundamental shifts underway. Meanwhile, European colocation provider Interxion co-chairs a Green Grid committee. BroadGroup – European Data Center market The Broad Group released its third bi-ann... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Europe   The Green Grid   Uptime Institute