2011: The Year Data Centers Turned Green

Explore Wired News (Dec 30 2011)

...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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The Green Grid Others Agree to Recommendations on Measuring Energy Efficiency

Explore Web Host Industry Review (May 17 2011)

...deral Energy Management Programs, the US Environmental Protection Agency’s ENERGY STAR Program, the US Green Building Council and the Uptime Institute. The report puts forward the apparently agreed-to principles that: PUE is the preferred energy effi... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   The Green Grid   Uptime Institute   ASHRAE

What is a green data center?

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

...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 by shipping giant FedEx has......tal Design (LEED) program, a voluntary rating system for energy efficient buildings overseen by the US Green Building Council. At least seven green data centers have achieved a Platinum rating, the highest ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Google   Uptime Institute   Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

California Plans Fast Data Center Consolidation

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Feb 11 2010) Construction , Solar

... also emphasizes the need to house applications in a Tier III or Tier IV data center, based on the Uptime Institute reliability scale. State May Seek Third-Party Space In most cases, agencies will migrate applicatio......pany said today. LEED is a voluntary rating system for energy efficient buildings overseen by the US Green Building Council (USGBC). The Vacaville facility also makes extensive use of virtualization to improve the utilizati... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Uptime Institute   US Green Building Council   LEED