TWM constructing green data center in northern Taiwan

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Google, HP Raise Data-Center PUE Bar

Explore Network Computing (Apr 6 2012) Construction , Power and Cooling , Cloud Computing , Servers

Google once brashly believed that its engineers could invent a solution to the world's energy problems. Th......ing consumed by overhead. Ideally, the PUE should be as close to 1.0 as possible. According to the Uptime Institute, which tracks these statistics, the average PUE for data centers surveyed in 2011 was 1.83, which m... (Read Full Article)

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Google says average 2011 PUE was 1.14

Explore DatacenterDynamics (Mar 26 2012) Construction , Power and Cooling , Cloud Computing , Servers

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eBay Containers Push Frontiers of Efficiency

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Feb 27 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing , Servers

... design, and aligning ourselves with The Green Grid’s DCMM from the beginning.” Large users such as Google, Yahoo, Facebook and Microsoft have reported industry-leading ratings in the 1.07 to 1.2 range. T......plications and workloads. The average PUE for data center facilities is about 1.8, according to the Uptime Institute. Another criticism was that PUE reports sometimes were reported using different methodology, result... (Read Full Article)

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10 questions to ask your next data center

Explore edgeblog (Jan 23 2012) Cloud Computing

...cture represents a critical asset for your company, and unless you are an uber-dot com company like Google or Facebook (which spread their gear around the country in tens of locations), you probably only ha......components. Often times, they will refer to themselves as “tier III” or “tier IV,” referring to the Uptime Institute’s definitions of the four tiers of data centers. Tier III is defined as being concurrently ... (Read Full Article)

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2011: The Year Data Centers Turned Green

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...nergy efficiency — and no two data centers are alike. Out of necessity, the huge Internet players — Google, Facebook, Amazon, Twitter, Yahoo, and Apple — are finding ways to use greener energy and get more ......oration: Harrisonburg, Virginia This highly redundant, highly secure trusted cloud facility won the Uptime Institute 2011 Green Enterprise IT Audacious Idea award for recycling cooling water to irrigate the data cen... (Read Full Article)

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Report: Data Center Energy Use is Moderating

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Aug 1 2011) Cloud Computing , Servers

...on estimates of the average PUE reported in recent samplings by the EPA Energy Star Program and the Uptime Institute. While some cloud computing data centers have PUEs in the 1.1 to 1.3 range, Koomey noted that less ......rk Times has been investigating data center energy use since early 2010, with a particular focus on Google’s data centers. “Data centers’ unquenchable thirst for electricity has been slaked ... (Read Full Article)

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Uptime Institute: The Average PUE is 1.8

Explore Data Center Knowledge (May 10 2011)

...ating for data centers is 1.8, according to a survey of more than 500 data centers conducted by The Uptime Institute. PUE has become the leading metric for tracking the energy efficiency of data centers. The ave......by the IT equipment, revealing how much is lost in distribution and conversion. Large users such as Google, Yahoo, Facebook and Microsoft have reported industry-leading ratings in the 1.07 to 1 ... (Read Full Article)

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Uptime Institute Announces Green IT Awards

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Apr 19 2011)

The Uptime Institute has announced winners of the 2011 Green Enterprise IT (GEIT) Awards, which recognize outstanding pr......at the Symposium event is just one of many reasons to attend this year. Presenters from Facebook, Google, HP, Vantage and i/o will discuss their innovations in data center design. A May 9th event is sch... (Read Full Article)

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What is a green data center?

Explore Environmental Information, Green News (Mar 22 2011) Cloud Computing , Servers

...raphs onto Flickr, streaming an old episode of “The Office” on Hulu and researching a term paper on Google sucks up more electricity than you can imagine. The growing power demands of the digital age are sp......tricity used by the computing equipment. The typical data center has a PUE of 2.5, according to the Uptime Institute. A green data center opened in March 2011 in Colorado Springs, Colorado ... (Read Full Article)

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Scott Data Center becoming powerhouse

Explore Omaha.com (Feb 25 2011) Data Center Outages , Cloud Computing

...r is located. Just last week, the Scott Data Center plan received Tier Three certification from the Uptime Institute, a New York-based firm that critiques and rates data centers around the world based on the operatio......data centers lease server space to numerous customers and businesses. Other area data centers, like Google’s in Council Bluffs or Yahoo’s in La Vista, support online traffic solely driven from those compani... (Read Full Article)

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

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...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......, power generation, distribution and consumption are definitely on government check lists. The 2010 Uptime Institute Symposium highlighted this issue in numerous discussions on the affect of pending carbon legislatio... (Read Full Article)

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How A Good PUE Can Save 10 Megawatts

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Sep 13 2010)

...end to improve as a data center nears full utilization, which is one reason why large users such as Google report industry-leading ratings in the 1.1 to 1.2 range. At a time when the industry is debating th......utilization.” What’s an ‘Average’ PUE? There is some debate about the industry average for PUE. The Uptime Institute, which tracks the operations of a group of enterprise data centers ... (Read Full Article)

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Cloud Computing as an Energy Saving Tool

Explore Data Center Knowledge (May 17 2010) Carbon Tax , Cloud Computing , Servers

...17th, 2010 : Rich Miller Data center energy expert Jonathan Koomey discusses cloud computing at the Uptime Institute Symposium 2010 Monday in New York. As the data center industry grows increasingly obsessed with ene......ionals at the New York Hilton. “Enormous Advantages” In a nutshell, cloud companies like Microsoft, Google and Amazon can process the same workload with a lot less power than companies can in their in-house... (Read Full Article)

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New federal data center energy-efficiency guidelines on tap

Explore Data Center (Feb 26 2010) Cloud Computing , Servers

...RAE), the Green Grid, the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, the U.S. Green Building Council, and the Uptime Institute. The goals? To standardize data center efficiency metrics, which could help prevent "greenwashing,"......news Digg This! StumbleUpon Toolbar StumbleUpon Bookmark with Delicious Del.icio.us Add to Google The federal government and major industry groups are on the cusp of developing widely accepted s... (Read Full Article)

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How Green is Your Data Center?

Explore Search Journal (Oct 17 2009) Carbon Footprint , Cloud Computing

...environmental data into a building management system. The Result of Poor Data Center Management The Uptime Institute developed a metric called Power Utilization Efficiency (PUE) to measure the effectiveness of power ......or other). Most data centers today consider a target value of 1.5 good, with some companies such as Google trying to drive their PUE below 1.2 – an industry benchmark. Other data centers are not even at the... (Read Full Article)

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Greener Computing in the Cloud

Explore Featured « zikkir (Sep 25 2009) Cloud Computing

...growing practice–offloading computation and storage to remote data centers run by companies such as Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo–could have one clear advantage: far better energy efficiency, thanks to custo......s at around 1.5 percent, is expected to rise further. According to a study published in 2008 by the Uptime Institute, a datacenter consultancy based in Santa Fe, NM, it could quadruple by 2020. Greener Computing in... (Read Full Article)

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With recent outages, big data service providers take hits

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...y. Backup generators failed after one outage, and connectivity was lost in the other. Also in July, Google Inc.'s App Engine suffered an outage, with systems exhibiting "elevated latency and error rates." T...... respondents said they believed service disruptions would increase. Another warning sign comes from Uptime Institute data. The Santa Fe, N.M.-based data center engineering and consulting firm issues what it calls Fla... (Read Full Article)

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Citi’s Green Data Centers Provide Environmental and Business Benefits

Explore financetech.com (May 20 2009) Construction , Power and Cooling , Emissions , Cloud Computing , Servers

...dings -- in Frankfurt; Georgetown, Texas; and Singapore. In April, the Department of Energy and the Uptime Institute recognized Citi -- the only Wall Street firm in the running -- as a finalist for a Green Enterprise...... doesn't grow particularly fast, so we don't have to keep sheep on the roof," he jokes. (Given that Google recently hired a herd of goats to trim its grounds, however, the notion of roof-vegetation-chomping... (Read Full Article)

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