Will Apple Beat Google to Tap North Carolina's Pig Power?

Explore TPM Idea Lab (Apr 9 2012) Construction , Emissions , Fuel Cell

...le’s green cred. Until now the company has been lagging behind other tech giants such as Google and Facebook for bragging rights on sustainability leadership, and the Maiden data center has given it plenty to......nd a “smart” electrical system. According to Apple, the new data center is the largest to achieve a LEED (Leadership in Environmental Engineering and Design) Platinum certification from the U.S. Green Bui... (Read Full Article)

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Apple Plans 20MW of Solar Power for iDataCenter

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Feb 20 2012) Construction , Power and Cooling , Fuel Cell , Solar

...ersions to step the power down within the data center. Similar designs have been used by Google and Facebook in their data centers. + Apple is using containment “pods” in which airflow is regulated using vari......PDF). Apple disclosed that the facility has earned Platinum, the highest level attainable under the LEED ( Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) rating system for energy efficient buildings. The company used 14 percent of recycled ... (Read Full Article)

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For Facebook, infrastructure concerns loom large

Explore GigaOM (Feb 1 2012)

Beneath all the Zynga games, likes, personal timelines and pokes, Facebook's business relies on fast, reliable infrastructure. And concerns about that underlying figure heavi...... of standardized data center infrastructure — as evidenced in its state-of-the-art, and LEED-certified Prineville, Ore., data center. (Read Full Article)

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10 questions to ask your next data center

Explore edgeblog (Jan 23 2012) Cloud Computing

...esents a critical asset for your company, and unless you are an uber-dot com company like Google or Facebook (which spread their gear around the country in tens of locations), you probably only have one or tw......tions has the data center earned, and do they undergo annual audits to maintain them? SSAE 16, PCI, LEED Gold, Energy Star, FISMA, HIPAA, SCIF, Tier IV. There are a multitude of certification ... (Read Full Article)

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2011: The Year Data Centers Turned Green

Explore Wired News (Dec 30 2011)

...ficiency — and no two data centers are alike. Out of necessity, the huge Internet players — Google, Facebook, Amazon, Twitter, Yahoo, and Apple — are finding ways to use greener energy and get more out of the...... dioxide. PUE: 1.2 to 1.3 Vantage: Santa Clara, California This data center hosting facility earned LEED Platinum certification, the greenest classification from the US Green Building Council. The ... (Read Full Article)

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Facebook, Yahoo!, QTS Data Centers Land LEED Ratings

Explore GreenBiz.com (Nov 21 2011) Solar , Cloud Computing

... to improve efficiency. As a result, the company plans to invest $10 million to carry out the work. Facebook also received LEED-Gold certification for its data center in Prineville, Oregon, which was designed to slash energy us... (Read Full Article)

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Secret to Facebook's green data center? Water misters

Explore Technology News (Nov 18 2011) Construction , Fossil Fuel , Servers

Facebook says its Prineville, Oregon data center received Gold-level LEED green building certification on the back of an elaborate evaporative cooling system that taps outdo... (Read Full Article)

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Facebook scores LEED gold for Oregon data center

Explore GigaOM (Nov 18 2011) Construction , Cloud Computing , Servers

...r the Oregon data center, which uses 52 percent less energy to operate than a standard data center. Facebook scores LEED gold for Oregon data center By Katie Fehrenbacher Nov. 17, 2011, 9:37pm PT No Comments * Tweet * * ... (Read Full Article)

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Facebook to Install Hybrid Solar Power and Water System at New HQ

Explore GreenBiz.com (Nov 8 2011) Solar , Wind

... solar installations in Santa Rosa and San Francisco to Adobe's novel vertical wind turbines on its LEED-Platinum rated headquarters in San Jose. Social media giant Facebook plans to install a rooftop solar power system that will provide hot water as well as electricity at... (Read Full Article)

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Fortune Data Centers Building Portland Oregon Data Center

Explore Web Host Industry Review (Oct 21 2011) Construction , Cloud Computing

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6 Lessons Learned From FedEx's Private Cloud

Explore InformationWeek (Sep 13 2011) Construction , Cloud Computing

...nt design" for future data centers, taking his cue from what he's seen Salesforce.com, Twitter, and Facebook build for themselves. Here are six conclusions on how to do that, based on his talk Monday at the I......heavily virtualized, with 70% of FedEx's servers running as virtual machines. That means it's been "LEED gold certified as a green data center that uses less power, has less ... (Read Full Article)

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Google keeps its Googlers going via green buildings

Explore siliconrepublic.com (Aug 19 2011) Power and Cooling , Carbon Footprint , Solar

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General Electric Unveils Efficient Data Center

Explore Greentech Media (Aug 18 2011) Wind , Cloud Computing

...er that serves its Appliance Park headquarters in Louisville, Kentucky. The data center is Platinum LEED-certified by the U.S. Green Building Council, one of only a handful of centers to achieve the ratin......n the 2 to 3 rating often seen in corporate America, but not as good as some champion data centers. Facebook’s latest Oregon data center sports a PUE of 1.07 and consumes 38 ... (Read Full Article)

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Solar Power in Data Centers: No Longer A Novelty?

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Apr 29 2011) Construction , Emissions , Solar , Cloud Computing

...he building. The facility also captures rainwater for use in its irrigation systems, and is seeking LEED Gold certification. BendBroadband Vault: This new facility in Bend, Oregon includes a solar array t......its through its utility, Pacific Power & Light, that offset the data center’s electricity use. Facebook: The social network has installed a large array of solar panels at its new data center in Prinevill... (Read Full Article)

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A Data Vault With a Green Complexion

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Apr 26 2011) Solar , Cloud Computing , Servers

Its located just 30 miles from a huge, extremely efficient Facebook data center whose debut triggered an avalanche of media coverage. But the BendBroadband Vault, whic......The Uptime Institute as a Tier III data center, while pursuing a Gold-level certification under the LEED ( Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) program for energy efficient building. The Vault also intends to gain acceptance as an Energy Star... (Read Full Article)

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What is a green data center?

Explore Environmental Information, Green News (Mar 22 2011) Cloud Computing , Servers

...se 30 to 100 percent more electricity per square foot than office buildings. (iStock) Updating your Facebook status, uploading vacation photographs onto Flickr, streaming an old episode of “The Office” on Hul...... a PUE of 1.28, the company says. Energy use is just one factor in attaining certification from the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) program, a voluntary rating system for energy efficient buildings overseen by the ... (Read Full Article)

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Wipro Confirms North Carolina Data Center

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Nov 16 2010)

...nter cluster in western North Carolina continues to grow. Just days after unveiling plans for a new Facebook data center in Rutherford County, state officials today confirmed that managed hosting provider Wip......center to meet the Uptime Institute’s requirements for a Tier III facility and says it will pursue LEED (Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design) certification as a sustainable building. T5 Partner... (Read Full Article)

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Facebook is the Poster Child for Carbon in the Data Center Industry

Explore greenm3.com (Nov 15 2010)

...noise and issues with Carbon in Data Centers makes it much easier to discuss Green Data Centers. Go Facebook!!! Keep on telling the environmentalist your PUE, LEED building certification, energy efficient servers and your chiller-less cooling system. People will ... (Read Full Article)

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Allstate Insurance: Software decisions play into green strategies

Explore Computerworld (Oct 25 2010) Construction , Servers

...green initiatives, 2009 was a banner year for Allstate Insurance, with the opening of a $55 million LEED Gold-certified data center and plans to consolidate four data center facilities into two. It's a... (Read Full Article)

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Facebook and eBay Share Energy Tips for Data Centers

Explore The New York Times (Oct 15 2010) Emissions , Servers

Facebook and eBay shared some tips this week for improving efficiency and cutting energy bills in data cente......were data center consolidation, and updates that are coming to the PUE efficiency metric and to the LEED certification program for green buildings. (Read Full Article)

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How A Good PUE Can Save 10 Megawatts

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Sep 13 2010)

...er power usage at its data center campus in Santa Clara that houses servers for companies including Facebook, Twitter and Yahoo. Digital Realty found that the customer data center space at the campus was o......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 ... (Read Full Article)

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A Green Data Center Triple Crown - by Doug Mohney

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Jul 8 2010)

..., save money, life is good. Greenpeace tarred the whole issue of green vs. non-green by calling out Facebook's new data center for using coal-generated power -- yet the organization doesn't have a problem wit...... has hydroelectric or geothermal. However, clean(er) energy sourcing gets you no brownie points on LEED, PUE, or Energy Star -- just a pat on the head from carbon-watchers and maybe a check on the list ... (Read Full Article)

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Intel Awarded Green Building Cert For Design Facility

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Apr 23 2010)

...uses a Xeon-based data centre. The design centre, which is set to open in June, has been awarded a Leadership In Energy And Environmental Design (LEED) gold certification and is the first building in Israel to do so. Built on land previously used as......ard to improve its environmental standing * By: Andrew Donoghue * April 23, 2010 Add to digg Add to Facebook Add to LinkedIn Add to reddit Add to ... (Read Full Article)

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