Are IT Data Centers Emerging as a 'Killer App' for Green Power? Part 1

Explore Renewable Energy World (May 18 2012) Construction , Emissions , Fossil Fuel , Wind , Cloud Computing , Servers

...uce the emissions potential of a prospective facility. After Greenpeace’s “unfriend coal” campaign, Facebook adopted a siting policy that gives preference to states with access to a clean renewable energy sup......asily and inexpensively offsetting emissions from data center electricity use. Leading IT companies Intel, Microsoft, Cisco, and Dell are among the top purchasers of RECs. In fact, Intel is top green power purchaser in the U.S., purchasing ... (Read Full Article)

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In Oregon, Mission West Looks to the East

Explore Data Center Knowledge (May 15 2012) Construction , Power and Cooling , Cloud Computing

...ter boom have been the Portland area – especially Hillsboro, a tech hub that grew up around a major Intel campus – and the small town of Prinevlle, where Facebook and Apple are building major data centers. Can that success extend to Ontario? Hardin, an industry ... (Read Full Article)

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iCloud Revamp May Introduce Social Features

Explore TechWeekEurope UK (May 15 2012) Fuel Cell

...sets of photos with other iCloud users, who will be able to comment on them – Apple with a touch of Facebook, it would seem. iCloud Revamp May Introduce Social Features Apple is to introduce an iCloud update ...... “We note Apple blogs have speculated that MacBooks may be updated with a slimmer body style. Also, Intel’s most recent generation of processors, Ivy Bridge, is set to be introduced during the ... (Read Full Article)

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Open Compute builds a business model for the next era of the web

Explore GigaOM (May 4 2012) Servers

...h time a user loads the page. Cutting costs in IT has huge effects on the bottom line. For example, Facebook spent 16 percent and Google both spent about 9 percent of its revenue on infrastructure and capital......gn where vendors can try to create value above and beyond the Open Compute standard, to the AMD and Intel motherboards that were created with the financial services industry, it seems like ... (Read Full Article)

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Facebook Introduces Open Rack Standard

Explore TechWeekEurope UK (May 3 2012)

...Salesforce.com, VMware and Canonical. Frankovsky outlined some fresh proposed projects, including a Facebook design for a “vanity-free storage server”, codenamed Knox. AMD and Intel are working on similar ideas, offering up concepts of highly efficient motherboards aimed at th... (Read Full Article)

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It’s not easy being green: Data center edition

Explore GigaOM (May 2 2012) Construction , Fuel Cell , Wind , Cloud Computing

...it held today in San Antonio, Texas. Bill Weihl, manager of energy efficiency and sustainability at Facebook and the former energy czar at Google, moderated the panel that also featured the head of sustainabi......d of sustainability for Rackspace; someone building an HPC cluster for oil company BP; someone from Intel; and Jonathan Koomey, a consultant and energy-efficiency expert. While we are entering the age of 1... (Read Full Article)

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Facebook-Driven Open Compute Project Grows Membership, Technologies

Explore eweek.com (May 2 2012) Construction

...technologies. Until then, the social networking giant had been using traditional systems from OEMs. Facebook worked with Intel and AMD and systems makers HP and Dell to create the custom servers. The company was looking to cre... (Read Full Article)

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Open Compute one year later. Bigger, badder and less disruptive than we thought.

Explore GigaOM (May 2 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing

...ovsky said was designed to hold 195os railroad switching equipment into the current era. Outside of Facebook’s contributions, AMD and Intel have contributed motherboard designs aimed specifically at the financial services markets. And thos... (Read Full Article)

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Green Data Centers: Is It Worth Running a “Losing” Race?

Explore Triple Pundit (Apr 26 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing

...ave now firmly embarked on. Entire countries, such as Iceland, as well IT industry leaders, such as Intel, are cases in point. The green data center market It’s estimated that data centers consume around......h have become more active in supporting policies to drive greater renewable energy investment. * Facebook, one of the largest online destinations with over 800 million users around the world, has now commi... (Read Full Article)

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Edison's Revenge: The Rise of DC Power

Explore Technology Review (Apr 24 2012) Construction , Solar , Cloud Computing

...configurations, according to Keiichi Hirose, a senior research engineer at NTT Facilities in Tokyo. Intel has valued annual power savings for a medium-sized data center in the U.S. at $1.2 million, and the......ity to stabilize the grid Homomorphic Encryption Making cloud computing more secure Social Indexing Facebook remaps the Web to personalize online services (Read Full Article)

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NC Facebook Data Center Officially Goes Online

Explore DailyTech (Apr 20 2012) Construction

...ployment of the v2 OpenCompute Project web servers. These servers are also some of the first to use Intel's Sandy Bridge processor. Facebook announced yesterday that its new North Carolina data center is up and running after 16 months of de... (Read Full Article)

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As Facebook grows, so do its data center needs

Explore GigaOM (Apr 20 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing

... get it done. * It is the first major deployment of Open Compute Project web servers that are using Intel’s Sandy Bridge processors. * Facebook believes that Forest City, like its first data center in Prineville, Ore., will be one of most ene... (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

...st power failure. It is capital that in the best case is never used! Winston Saunders has worked at Intel for nearly two decades in both manufacturing and product roles. He has worked in his current role l......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 ... (Read Full Article)

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Facebook’s North Carolina Data Center Goes Live

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

... also be the first major production deployment of the v2 OpenCompute Project web servers, which use Intel’s Sandy Bridge processor. Facebook projects that the North Carolina facility will operate at a Power Utilization Effectiveness (PuE) m... (Read Full Article)

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Facebook opens second US data center

Explore zdnet.com (Apr 19 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing

...he first major deployment of the v2 OCP web servers, which are in turn are some of the first to use Intel’s Sandy Bridge processor in production. * Forest City is expected to join Facebook’s facility in Prineville, Oregon, as one of the most energy efficient in the world, with a projec... (Read Full Article)

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Web Host TurnKey Internet to Open Green Data Center in New York State

Explore Web Host Industry Review (Apr 18 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing

... Earlier this week, Greenpeace published its “How Green is Your Cloud” report, which saw Amazon and Facebook receive low ratings. In addition to the new data center, Turnkey also recently installed an advance......ng and cloud hosting services, will features specialized low-voltage computer servers from Dell and Intel that require less energy to power their cloud-based computing services. To celebrate Earth Day and ... (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

...n enterprise data centers. “The E5 family is truly the heart of the data center,”said Diane Bryant, Intel vice president and general manager of the Datacenter and Connected Systems Group. “And we mean ALL ......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 cooling ... (Read Full Article)

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Low power is the new black for data centers

Explore GigaOM (Mar 6 2012) Construction , Servers

...ve another key acquisition last week. AMD, a company that has fought a decades-long losing war with Intel over building the best CPU, acquired low-power server maker SeaMicro in a move that says a lot abou......Micro deal is one more step toward transferring the value, which an end customer like a Google or a Facebook needs, to a company like AMD and away from the OEMs. The OEMs know ... (Read Full Article)

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Facebook Seeks Patent on Cooling Automation

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Mar 5 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing , Servers

Engineers from Facebook are seeking a patent on a data center cooling system that uses a load balancer to automatically shi......just fan activity based on pressure within the cabinet. + In 2009, Lawrence Berkeley Labs and Intel developed a proof-of-concept that integrated a sensor network into building management systems, w... (Read Full Article)

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Don’t call it a wimpy node: SeaMicro rethinks the server for webscale

Explore GigaOM (Jan 31 2012) Servers

...ng innovation at their pace. But now the density, power and performance demands of companies like Facebook, Google and others are driving vendors in the chip and server industry to react. And so far, SeaMic......ors — delivering four different iterations of its server in response to market demand in 18 months. Intel’s willingness to listen to and learn from SeaMicro, and its gradual realization that the microserve... (Read Full Article)

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Facebook Has Spent $210 Million on Oregon Data Center

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jan 30 2012) Construction

Facebook has invested $210 million to build the first phase of its new data center in Prineville, Oregon, wh......ers spending money in the local economy. ECONorthwest has done a similar study on the impact of Intel’s operations in Oregon. In terms of direct impact, the ECONorthwest study cites the following benef... (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

...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......ill acquire a controlling stake in Netmagic Solutions, a leading managed hosting provider in India. Intel: Emerging Player in DCIM Ecosystem – While known primarily for processors, Intel’s innovation extends to middleware like Data Center Manager, which ... (Read Full Article)

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Mozilla to Keynote Technology Convergence Conference

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jan 23 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing

...agement, security and virtualization. This track will feature presenters from Sybase, MGI Research, Facebook and Lockheed Martin. The event will also resume its monitoring track titled “Facilities, Operations...... Global Foundational Services at eBay; and Chuck Rego, Chief Architect High Density Data Centers at Intel. A final track titled “Collaboration, Strategy & Planning” will feature panels and end-user case st... (Read Full Article)

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For 2012, power-efficient servers could get a shot in the ARM

Explore ITworld (Dec 23 2011) Construction , Fuel Cell , Servers

...rovide more power-efficient processing of cloud transactions than traditional x86 server chips like Intel's Xeon or Advanced Micro Devices' Opteron, which are more power hungry. The chips based on ARM proc......nogma has just joined ITworld just_say_it_tw20236489 commented on By the numbers: How dangerous are Facebook, Twitter, and search engines (really)? just_say_it_tw20236489 has just joined ITworld ba.it has jus... (Read Full Article)

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