Intel Sets 2020 Environmental Goals

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...cent on a per chip basis by 2020 from 2010 levels(1). -- Design all new buildings to a minimum Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Silver Certification between 2010 and 2020. -- Increase the energy efficiency of notebook computer......s been recognized as the largest voluntary purchaser of green power in the United States, under the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Green Power Partnership program. -- Since 2009, Intel has ... (Read Full Article)

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DataGryd Opens Green Data Center Doors at Iconic 60 Hudson Street

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IT Outsourcing Buyers Still Don't Care About Sustainability

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...stainability projects in recent years --from run-of-the-mill energy consumption reduction goals and LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certified buildings to more fascinating waste conversion to manure efforts and personal carbon cal......s verification of energy cost reduction or energy efficiency increases using a standard such as the EPA's Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT)? 9. Do you measure Power Usage Effective... (Read Full Article)

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StrataScale’s Data Centers Receive LEED Gold, Energy Star Certification

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...Service Provider. The company’s original 250,000 square-foot CA1 data center recently earned the US Environmental Protection Agency’s Energy Star certification. Meanwhile, its second 250,000 square-foot CA2 data center was awarded Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Gold certification by the US Green Building Council. StrataScale’s Data Centers Receive LEED Gold, Energy Star Certification Justin Lee on February 13, 2012 * Tweet * * * Inside RagingWire's ......d to ... (Read Full Article)

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Will IT Efficiency Slay the Greenwashing Dragon??

Explore news.thomasnet.com (Feb 3 2012) Construction , Carbon Footprint , Emissions

...nding where you are in the ​world, but, generally speaking, Greening Government ICT in the U.K., or EPA Data Center recommendations, LEED building guidelines and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Energy Star program are good places to star... (Read Full Article)

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RagingWire Gains Certifications for Data Centers

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...6) audit with zero exceptions for the period between September 1, 2010 and August 31, 2011, Awarded LEED Gold certification by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), and earned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s ENERGY STAR certification, becoming the only 2011 ENERGY STAR certified data center focused on mu......quency drive motors, resulting in increased energy efficiency. “RagingWire is pleased to accept the EPA’s ENERGY STAR ... (Read Full Article)

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Vantage Expands With Project in Quincy

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...le in the United States. The facility is being designed to achieve Platinum certification under the LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) rating system for energy efficient buildings. Vantage has earned LEED Platinum certification for its first Santa Clara facility. Will Use Low-Emission ‘Tier 4′ Generator...... ‘Tier 4′ Generators Vantage said it planned to equip the new facility with generators meeting the EPA’s Tier 4 standard, which is ... (Read Full Article)

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Google keeps its Googlers going via green buildings

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The Trigeneration Data Center: What Is It?

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... the generation system. Electrical generation alone is generally very inefficient. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), nearly two-thirds of the energy produced by burning coal or another fossil fuel is wasted: “The a......cility is registered with the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), and the university is pursuing a LEED Silver rating. Does Free Cooling Steal Trigeneration’s Thunder? But what about cases where the dat... (Read Full Article)

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TMCnet GreenTech World Week in Review

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...stions of how to pay for the measure, during this period of budget contention. According to “Inside EPA’s Clean Energy Report,” as a result of the hearing, a joint staff amendment to the CEDA proposal re......ficiency incentive in the utility’s history. In addition, the Brocade headquarters has been awarded LEED® Commercial Interiors Gold certification by the U.S. Green Building Council. Brocade’s data center ... (Read Full Article)

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A Data Vault With a Green Complexion

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...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......fficient building. The Vault also intends to gain acceptance as an Energy Star data center from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The Vault will offer colocation, disaster recovery and cloud ... (Read Full Article)

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HP Shows Companies How to Integrate Energy Management and Carbon Reduction

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...tical Facilities Energy Certification Service – Achieves government certifications for the USGBC LEED Standard for Data Centers, US EPA Energy Star for Data Centers and US DOE Save Energy Now programs by auditing data center efficiency... (Read Full Article)

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What is a green data center?

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...orage and processing – use an estimated 100 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. That $7.4 billion annual light bill represents nearly 2 percent of the total U.S. electricity cons...... 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 ... (Read Full Article)

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Tips for data center efficiency

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... strongly encouraged or compulsory reductions in resource use and greenhouse gas emissions. The new U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Energy Star Data Center Energy Efficiency Initiative is an example of a program that will quickly g......wer and cooling systems, and commissioning. Once this program is released for public use, achieving LEED certification will only be possible after following a rigorous and thorough process. The Executive ... (Read Full Article)

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FedEx Unveils "Green" Data Center in Colorado Springs

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...tional 26,000 square feet. Recently, FedEx applied for Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design (LEED) certification of the EDC-W. LEED certification is the benchmark for buildings that are designed, constructed and operated sustainabl...... 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)

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Empire State Building Signs for 55 Million kWh of Renewable Energy

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...ncy Overhaul Roundup: Empire State Building, Dow, Loblaw’s Philly’s Comcast Center Now Tallest U.S. LEED Building Related Topics Carbon Offsets/RECs Contracts & Installations U.S. Wind Energy Jobs for Env...... commercial purchase in company’s 13-year history. The Empire State Building, a member of the EPA’s Green Power Partnership, will purchase renewable energy in the form of wind Renewable Ener... (Read Full Article)

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Green Data Center Resolutions for 2011 - Peter Judge

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...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 standards hav......are the energy efficiency of different products.   In some ways, Emerald is a challenge to the EPA and other bodies, who have not really made as much progress as they should on energy labelling for ... (Read Full Article)

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Raritan Signs Distribution Agreement with Graybar

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...an.com. Raritan is an active member of the Green Grid, Climate Savers Computing Initiative, and the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design associations. The company has been recognized by the EPA for its contribution to the agency's data center initiative. About Graybar Graybar (graybar.com), a... (Read Full Article)

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Symantec CR Report: Emissions up 4%

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...ns to restate its greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction goal in FY2011. Over FY2010, Symantec has received LEED certification for nine buildings globally and Energy Star ratings for ten buildings globally, joine......fication for nine buildings globally and Energy Star ratings for ten buildings globally, joined the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Climate Leaders program, which the EPA recently announced it would phase out, and started measuring and reporting on ... (Read Full Article)

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Raritan’s Power IQ 2.0 Energy Management Software Helps Data Center Managers ...

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...an.com. Raritan is an active member of the Green Grid, Climate Savers Computing Initiative, and the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design associations. The company has been recognized by the EPA for its contribution to the agency's data center initiative. Raritan's power management solutions h... (Read Full Article)

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How A Good PUE Can Save 10 Megawatts

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...oup of enterprise data centers, says the average PUE is 2.5. Others cite an average of 2.0, and the EPA’s Energy Star program reported a 1.91 average PUE in 2009 data it collected more than 100 data cent......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 ... (Read Full Article)

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Energy Star for data centers is first definitive green data center rating

Explore Data Center (Jun 23 2010) Power and Cooling , Servers

It's finally been done: a serious certification for data centers based on energy efficiency. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Energy Star Label for data centers is based on reducing energy consumption, which should be the ma......gn, has dragged its feet in considering data centers worthy of a different standard for its coveted LEED certification. Despite industry pressures and the startling numbers in the infamous 2008 EPA report on ... (Read Full Article)

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Extreme makeover: Cutting data centers down to size

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.... Governmentwide, federal servers now cost about $500 million annually to operate, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. And if no action is taken to reduce their usage, data center power requirements will double by 201......data center power requirements will double by 2011. However, if all agencies were to implement what EPA considers state-of-the-art practices, the government could lower overall data center power usage to... (Read Full Article)

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Raritan and Innovative Research Help Data Centers Become More Energy Efficient by Three-Dimensional Simulation of ...

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...an.com. Raritan is an active member of the Green Grid, Climate Savers Computing Initiative, and the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design associations. The company was recently recognized by the EPA for its contribution to the agency's data center initiative. All marks are the property of their re... (Read Full Article)

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New McKinsey Report: Green building is a crucial and urgent economic and environmental imperative

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...ddressing multiple barriers simultaneously. “By leveraging existing green building approaches, like LEED, which is rooted in holistic and integrated design, we have the ability and capacity now to address......ergy Reliability, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy), DTE Energy, Energy Foundation, Environmental Protection Agency, Exelon Corporation, Natural Resources Defense Council, PG&E Corporation, Sempra Energy, Sea Ch... (Read Full Article)

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Energy Stars: Wall Street Firms’ Sustainable IT Efforts

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... megawatts (millions of watts) of electricity, enough to power thousands of homes. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, the energy consumption of the nation's data centers will exceed 100 billion kilowatt hours by 2011......f $7.4 billion. But some data centers hog less energy than others (see related article on Citi's LEED-certified facilities). And although most firms have ditched the unrealistic phrase "green IT" for t... (Read Full Article)

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