What green really means for colos

Explore DatacenterDynamics (Sep 29 2011) Carbon Footprint , Carbon Tax , Cloud Computing

...gained attention because they are considered ‘green’. You only have to look at Facebook, Google and Yahoo!, all of which are using innovative and environmentally friendly cooling, building on brownfield si......nters down the green path. Governments are also focusing more on energy efficiency, not only in the Netherlands but elsewhere around the world. In Amsterdam, for example, if you want to have a data center build approved, you must ... (Read Full Article)

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Hacking in Netherlands Points to Weak Spot in Web Security

Explore The New York Times (Sep 12 2011)

In the Netherlands, the daily rhythm of a smooth running European society was disrupted after a computer hacker stole ......h government’s preferred provider of security certificates, DigiNotar, a company in Beverwijk, near Amsterdam, exposed the fragility of the global system of digital authentication that undergirds the Internet.... (Read Full Article)

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Capgemini pushes efficiency limits in Swindon data center

Explore The Register (Oct 12 2010) Cloud Computing , Servers

...ocation in the suburbs of Swindon, boasts an energy efficiency that's as good as anything Google or Yahoo! can put in the field. And Capgemini says it has gone all green and tried to encourage its supplier......data centers in France, the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, China, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, and Switzerland. At this time, the GIO operation has 26,000 servers, of which 8 ... (Read Full Article)

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Ten Unique Data Center Designs

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jul 29 2010) Power and Cooling , Solar , Cloud Computing , Servers

...oop is the result of a five-year effort to completely rethink the company’s data center design. The Yahoo team refined its approach and is building faster, cheaper data centers that will be dramatically mo...... dampers to control the airflow.” Free to Be: Carbon Free! EvoSwitch Climate Neutral Data Center in Amsterdam Being both carrier neutral and carbon neutral is the strategy behind EvoSwitch, located in the Netherlands. EvoSwitch is ... (Read Full Article)

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Wikipedia To Add A U.s. Data Center

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jul 2 2010) Cloud Computing

...mong the busiest sites in the world, along with web properties from Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Yahoo. Wikimedia has a primary data center in Tampa, as well as a facility in Amsterdam that supports European traffic. The group is reported to have about 300 servers in Tampa and about ... (Read Full Article)

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Greening the Internet: How much CO2 does this article produce?

Explore news.myjoyonline.com (Jul 12 2009) Carbon Footprint , Emissions , Cloud Computing

...tes and then purchase renewable energy certificates based on their sites' monthly carbon footprint. Netherlands-based Cleanbits lobbies web sites to go green by either by purchasing carbon offsets or switching t......osting providers, like AISO.net, a solar-powered data center based in California. And, like Google, Yahoo also incorporates renewable power and other efficiency measures in its data centers. However as mor... (Read Full Article)

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