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......nvestor opinion around the sources of energy that power the world’s largest Internet brands. In the United Kingdom, we are also seeing legislation target large users of power, including the data center ... (Read Full Article)

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Data center energy consumption will increase. Are you (not) surprised?

Explore ITworld (Sep 26 2011) Cloud Computing

... growth but only average projected power increase. The study also delves into power monitoring. The United Kingdom – defined as a developed ‘global’ market with a large number of facilities and moderate future grow......YahEZHHDL commented on Apple Mac Thunderbolt ports will support optical cables mzddlin commented on Google's greatest hits and most spectacular misses AdamsFrida_YahEZHHDL commented on 7 free network apps f... (Read Full Article)

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Capgemini pushes efficiency limits in Swindon data center

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

...ownfield location 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......T outsourcing and cloud computing business. The French company operates data centers in France, the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, China, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, and Switzerland. At th... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Google   Yahoo   United Kingdom

Equinix CTO 10 year perspective, data center changes in highly connected Internet services

Explore greenm3.com (Apr 15 2010) Cloud Computing

...Global Demand From Financial Services Firms and Cloud Service Providers FOSTER CITY, CA and LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM – March 30, 2010 – Equinix, Inc. (NASDAQ: EQIX), a provider of global data center services, today a......Equinix is on the right path to Green (low carbon) Data Centers. The mass media industry will cover Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Apple data centers.  But, here is a simple way to understand the future o... (Read Full Article)

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HP ties data center power decisions to business value impact

Explore ZDNet Technology News (Mar 24 2010)

...power optimization work -- especially the recent work the company's team has done in Wynyard in the United Kingdom, and Tulsa, Oklahoma. (Here's my original post on that work,... HP ties data center power decisions......ter (meaning it is not focused on running one type of application or software solution like, say, a Google data center that is designed entirely for search), the rack design is especially important for ... (Read Full Article)

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Warming Up To Iceland

Explore Forbes.com (Jan 11 2010) Power and Cooling , Carbon Footprint , Geothermal

... power and cooling is cheaper has been under way for the better part of a decade. Companies like Google ( GOOG - news - people ) and Microsoft ( MSFT - news - people ) are locating data centers in the co......t wasn't there even 12 months ago. In 2003, Iceland ran its first undersea fiber-optic cable to the United Kingdom. But one fiber optic cable doesn't make a good data center environment. They've ... (Read Full Article)

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New Smart2020 Project Tracks IT Industry's Progress on Climate Goals

Explore greenercomputing.com (Dec 15 2009) Monitoring

...sumer Products, Energy Efficiency, Innovation, Reduce Emissions, Small Business, Smart Grid LONDON, United Kingdom — Following on the release earlier this year of a report outlining how information technology can e......fices and homes, the report's authors urge the spread of technologies, like Microsoft's Hohm and Google's Power Meter, to provide real-time energy use to everyone. Policies and pilots are also needed to ... (Read Full Article)

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A look at the nonstop acceleration of Internet technology

Explore Nieman Watchdog (Sep 20 2009) Carbon Footprint , Cloud Computing

...etting better, faster and cheaper. It’s exciting but very disruptive. It enables new companies like Google to emerge, grow rapidly and change the world, with little time for long established human institu......ve is stored on Amazon servers somewhere in the United States. • Telegraph Media Group (TMG) in the United Kingdom, publisher of The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph, has gone further and made arrangements ... (Read Full Article)

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Cooling your data center is a breeze by tate cantrell

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Aug 12 2009) Power and Cooling

...cold sea air will keep servers chilled and in return cut the center’s cooling power needs in half.  Google is also cashing in on the benefits of free cooling by turning to Belgium - at least for most of the... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Iceland   Google   Verne Global