What's behind Iceland's first major data center

Explore ITworld (Oct 14 2011)

... giant data center outside the town center of Luleå,” in Sweden. It was around this time, too, that Google announced the opening of its data center in Hamina, Finland. And it was around this time, too, that......very, via Verne Global’s Icelandic data center facility. I had the chance to interview executives – Lisa Rhodes, VP of marketing and sales for Verne Global, and Sean McAvan, Datapipe’s VP of ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Apple   Greenpeace   Iceland

Six ways to cool your data centre efficiently and cheaply

Explore features.techworld.com (Sep 5 2011) Power and Cooling , Carbon Footprint , Servers

... cooling," says Rich Fichera, VP and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research. Companies like Apple, Google and Microsoft, along with hosting companies, have been sussing out sites that meet affordable power......11, powered entirely by a combination of hydroelectric sources and geothermal sources, according to Lisa Rhodes, VP Marketing and Sales at Verne Global. About 80% of the power will come from hydroelectric. Power... (Read Full Article)

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Six energy-efficient data center practices How vendors and industry groups are confronting the challenge of data center power and cooling in new and unusual ways.

Explore ITworld (Aug 23 2011)

...-- powered entirely by a combination of hydro-electric sources and geothermal sources, according to Lisa Rhodes, VP Marketing and Sales, Verne Global. (About 80% of the power will come from hydro-electric.) Ma......up, Forrester Research. [ See also: Facebook shares its data-center secrets ] Companies like Apple, Google and Microsoft, along with data center hosting companies, have been sussing out sites that meet affo... (Read Full Article)

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Industry Trends: Part 2 - Business Efficiencies, Regulation, and Security Risk Management

Explore Data Center Post (Feb 23 2011)

...ting that we turn the tables and focus on energy efficient monitoring and impending regulation. - Lisa Rhodes, Vice President of Marketing and Sales at Verne Global (www.verneglobal.com), says: A couple weeks ......en the new CUE metric though, it seems like Facebook will be friending operators such as Yahoo! and Google who use renewable energy sources to power their data centers to get some ideas on cleaning up their... (Read Full Article)

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Data Center Greenwashing? Time Will Tell If It Was

Explore Relocate (Apr 29 2010) Carbon Footprint , Emissions , Fossil Fuel , Geothermal , Cloud Computing

...ter Greenwashing? Time Will Tell If It Was Time Well Spent Thursday, 29 April 2010 18:57 Written by Lisa Rhodes E-mail Print PDF Every year around Earth Day, countless individuals and organizations look to make ......ing to utilize these sources in their present and future data center design. A giant among giants, Google, actually committed to becoming carbon neutral back in 2007 and has shown a great deal of ... (Read Full Article)

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