Digital Realty Trust Now Has 19 LEED-Certified Data Centers

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...f our approach to designing, building and operating data center facilities," said Jim Smith, CTO of Digital Realty. "The USGBC's LEED certification program is the most widely recognized and respected standard for sustainability in bu... (Read Full Article)

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Digital Realty Reaches 19 LEED-Certified Data Centers

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Oct 26 2011) Construction

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How A Good PUE Can Save 10 Megawatts

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... when the industry is debating the appropriate use of metrics like Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE), Digital Realty Trust has produced some real-world data to illustrate how improved efficiency can save power and mo......erm requirements. The campus is home to three data centers with a Platinum or Gold rating under the LEED standard for energy efficient buildings. “We knew our PUEs would be good based on how the facilitie... (Read Full Article)

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JRM Cites Progress on Chicago Project

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Sep 7 2010)

... McCormick Place convention center and 350 East Cermak Road, the enormous carrier hotel operated by Digital Realty Trust. Proximity to Fiber Hub Living in the shadow of 350 E. Cermak has its benefits and challenges......e European stock exchanges combined.” JRM says its plans to seek Gold level certification under the LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) program for energy efficient buildings. Architectural design drawings include louvers along the ... (Read Full Article)

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Second Digital Realty Trust data center gets LEED Platinum

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...es made in their massive IT departments, servers and data centers. T Wholesale data center provider Digital Realty Trust has earned a LEED Platinum certification for yet another one of its Silicon Valley facilities. The US Green Building ... (Read Full Article)

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McHugh Plans Major Chicago Data Center

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... McCormick Place convention center and 350 East Cermak Road, the enormous carrier hotel operated by Digital Realty Trust. The project revives a plan for a data center at the site, which was first proposed ......th community leaders. Architectural drawings show that McHugh hopes to gain certification under the LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) program for energy efficient buildings. Design Features Louvers, Solar Power The design drawings i... (Read Full Article)

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Facebook Goes Green with New Data Centers

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Nov 5 2009) Construction , Cloud Computing , Servers

... of the leases are in facilities designed to attain the highest energy efficiency ratings under the LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) program operated by the U.S. Green Building Council. Each of the data centers hosting Facebook’s s......ing space from the two largest “wholesale” data center landlords, the real estate investment trusts Digital Realty Trust and DuPont Fabros Technologies. Since the beginning of 2009, Facebook has ... (Read Full Article)

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Going the Platinum Way

Explore Relocate (Oct 8 2009) Construction , Cloud Computing

...assé. 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. T......hieve 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 in Silicon Valley ... (Read Full Article)

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LEED Platinum for Digital Realty/Nvidia Site

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Oct 5 2009) Construction

...ed by Nvidia (NVDA). The Platinum award is the highest level of certification available through the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED)program, a voluntary rating system for energy efficient buildings. The Nvidia data center is jus......es such as building materials, materials re-use and construction practices,” said Jim Smith, CTO of Digital Realty Trust. “Through a LEED program in conjunction with a PUE-optimized datacenter, we have been able ... (Read Full Article)

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Digital Realty Buys Two Valley Properties

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Sep 29 2009) Construction , Power and Cooling

...which utilizes free cooling (using fresh air to cool the data center) is said to be a candidate for LEED certification. Earlier this year Digital Realty’s management said the company was likely to buy a number of occupied data centersas income properti... (Read Full Article)

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