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Will IT Efficiency Slay the Greenwashing Dragon??

Explore news.thomasnet.com (Feb 3 2012) Construction , Carbon Footprint , Emissions

..., but, generally speaking, Greening Government ICT in the U.K., or EPA Data Center recommendations, LEED building guidelines and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Energy Star program are good places to star... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   United Kingdom   Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory   LEED

For Facebook, infrastructure concerns loom large

Explore GigaOM (Feb 1 2012)

... of standardized data center infrastructure — as evidenced in its state-of-the-art, and LEED-certified Prineville, Ore., data center. (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Facebook   LEED

Top Trends in Data Center Energy Management

Explore environmentalleader.com (Jan 31 2012) Construction , Emissions

... Private Networks, 2010-2015 * Top 5 States for Energy Carbon Intensity in 2009 * Top 10 States for LEED Certified Space per Capita in 2011 * U.S. CO2 Emissions, 2000-2009 * U.S. (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   LEED

Green Racks

Explore Express Computer (Jan 31 2012) Construction , Carbon Footprint , Cloud Computing , Servers

...t & Business Head, Technology Infrastructure Services, Wipro Infotech, whose Noida data center is a LEED Gold-rated building, “While these (PUE and DCIE) indeed bring attention to wastage and drive variou... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Intel   The Green Grid   LEED

RagingWire Gains Certifications for Data Centers

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jan 27 2012) Construction , Monitoring

...6) audit with zero exceptions for the period between September 1, 2010 and August 31, 2011, Awarded LEED Gold certification by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), and earned the U.S. Environmental Pr... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory   SunGard   LEED

Disruptive Technology from the Desktop to the Data Center

Explore SOA World Magazine (Jan 27 2012) Construction , Solar , Cloud Computing

According to Wikipedia, a disruptive technology or disruptive innovation is an innovation that helps create a new market and value network, and eventually goes on to disrupt an existing market and value network (over a few years or decades), displacing an earlier technology. The term is used in business and technology literature to describe innovations that improve a product or service in ways that the market does not expect, typically ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   LEED

Smart lights, bright data center

Explore ITworld (Jan 25 2012) Construction

...olled airflow management. Its efforts helped the data center attain its U.S. Green Building Council LEED Gold certification, according to the article. Included in the renovation was the selection of LE... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Intel   Google   Oracle

Executive Hirings: Dca, Id Group, CoreLink, 8 Solutions

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jan 24 2012)

...al, engineering and planning firm focused on data center design, announced today that Bradley Gray, LEED AP, has been named a company principal. Data center hosting provider CoreLink Data Centers has ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Europe   Interactive Data Corporation   LEED

10 questions to ask your next data center

Explore edgeblog (Jan 23 2012) Cloud Computing

...tions has the data center earned, and do they undergo annual audits to maintain them? SSAE 16, PCI, LEED Gold, Energy Star, FISMA, HIPAA, SCIF, Tier IV. There are a multitude of certification programs tha... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Google   Uptime Institute   Facebook

Intelligent lighting improves data center efficiency

Explore csemag.com (Jan 22 2012) Construction

...he facility reach the lowest power usage effectiveness (PUE) and attain U.S. Green Building Council LEED Gold certification. Fenwick and West LLP is a national law firm specializing in technology and life... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   LEED

Stream Expands With Houston Data Center

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jan 11 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing

... will be built to withstand sustained 146-mph straight-line winds, and is being designed to achieve LEED Gold Certification. The data center will initially deliver 4.5 megawatts of critical power, with... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   LEED

Illinois supercomputing center gets LEED Gold

Explore DatacenterDynamics (Jan 10 2012) Construction , Power and Cooling , Supercomputer

Comment Mentions:   National Science Foundation   US Green Building Council   LEED

Blue Waters Data Center Achieves LEED Gold

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jan 10 2012) Construction , Power and Cooling , Supercomputer

... Facility (NPCF) at the University of Illinois has been earned a Gold-level certification under the LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) rating program for energy-efficient buildings. Blue Waters Constructed in 2010 the Univers... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   IBM   LEED

Colocation Firm CyrusOne Acquires Land in Dallas for Data Center Build

Explore Web Host Industry Review (Jan 6 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing

...design expected to deliver 100 percent uptime. The data center will be constructed to meet Platinum LEED certification standards. “The demand by our Fortune 500 customers for high-quality enterprise-class... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Kevin Timmons   LEED   Gary Wojtaszek

CyrusOne Plans 700,000 SF Dallas Data Center

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jan 6 2012) Construction

...he company said it anticipates gaining Platinum certification, the highest level possible under the LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) rating for energy efficient buildings from the U.S. Green Building Council. The Dallas site is the... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Kevin Timmons   LEED   Gary Wojtaszek