Thor Icelandic Data Centre Sold To Service Provider

Explore TechWeekEurope UK (Jan 5 2012)

...ervice there, and the Nordic supercomputer, a high-performance computing service created jointly by Norway, Sweden and Denmark. Iceland has very cheap renewable energy from geothermal and hydroelectric s......rom the Icelandic government’s municipal data centre which was set up in 1952, and began with early IBM mainframes. Skyrr still has a lot of government work in Iceland, and subsidiaries in Scandinavian... (Read Full Article)

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Australia introduces carbon tax

Explore DatacenterDynamics (Jul 11 2011) Cap and Trade , Carbon Tax , Emissions , Fossil Fuel

Australia introduces carbon taxDatacenterDynamicsSingapore Telecom (Optus), Telstra, IBM, Fujitsu and Vodafone are a part of this list but some companies, including Fujitsu, said energy ef......has a general fuel tax on fossil fuel use, Sweden brought a carbon tax into play in 1991 along with Norway, Denmark waited until 1992 and more recently Switzerland and Ireland also introduced carbon taxes. ... (Read Full Article)

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A Roadmap to Green IT

Explore Greentech Media (Apr 13 2011) Servers

...re are the main subsegments: Architecture and Design. Take advantage of the elements. Local Host in Norway hopes to build data centers in abandoned mine shafts, while test and measurement expert BaseN built......ource license. Many companies have also opted for slower fans with big blades to cut cooling costs. IBM has continued to pursue liquid cooling of chips and servers. An experimental datacenter in Syracuse... (Read Full Article)

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Clouds, Air Cooling...and King Canute - By Peter Judge

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Dec 13 2010)

...en I hear people arguing about the value of trends in computing.   A king of Denmark, England, Norway and Sweden, around 1000AD Canute (or Cnut)  was a grandson of Harald Bluetooth - whose name was ado......rsion of its Ice Cube, which combines the two in one unit. AST Modular - the company which supplies IBM’s container products - has gone for a double-decker concept, where there is a whole extra container... (Read Full Article)

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Leading EU Broadband Providers Commit to Energy Saving

Explore The New York Times (Sep 28 2010) Emissions , Networking

...elefonica and Turk Telekom among others, have joined heavyweights such as Fujitsu, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Vodafone and Cisco in the voluntary plan to help cut carbon emissions. The new s......new signees bring the code's coverage up to 65 million E.U. broadband lines with 10 million more in Norway, Switzerland and Turkey. Data centers, meanwhile, account roughly for 18 percent of the ICT sector'... (Read Full Article)

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IBM Appoints CBRE in the Nordics

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LMultinational computer, technology and IT consulting corporation, International Business Machines (IBM), has renewed its agreement with CB Richard Ellis (CBRE) to provide portfolio management services a......ft portfolio includes four regional headquarters, 37 offices and 6 data centres in Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland. Andrew Hallissey, Senior Director, Global Corporate Services at CBRE, said: “CBRE has... (Read Full Article)

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Fjords, Caves and Mines: The New Tools for Building Data Centers

Explore Greentech Media (Apr 28 2010) Geothermal , Servers

...created a cooling system for data-centers that siphons icy water from 984 feet below the surface of Norway's Nordfjord. Now the startup wants to build the world's largest green data center in an abandone......nd wind power to run racks of energy-hungry servers. The company already attracted the attention of IBM and Tandberg. Now it plans to reach out to Google and Microsoft for the $100 million it ... (Read Full Article)

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Is Sandia National Lab's Red Sky Really Able to Deliver a PUE of 1.035?

Explore Perspectives (Nov 22 2009) Supercomputer

...ly, Red Sky brings the water to the server racks using Sun Cooling Door Systems (similar to the IBM iDataPlex Rear Door Cooling system).   The Sun Cooling Door System is a nice de......plied to related domains that also have large quantities of low grade heat. For example, a city in Norway is experimenting with waste heat recovery from Sewage: Flush the loo, warm your house.  ... (Read Full Article)

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