... using sustainable operational best practices. In August, Internap was awarded LEED Gold certification by the US Green Building Council for its Dallas data center. Aside from data center space, the new data center will o...

... green organizations, this eBook looks at some of the following Green Founders: • Green Building Initiative • US Green Building Council • The Green Grid • Energy Star • ASHRAE In working with a good green provider, this ...

...offers a viable step forward, while increasing overall environmental awareness, commitment and education. The US Green Building Council’s adaptation of the data center as one of the new LEED project types for New Constru...

...gn, construction and operation of high performance green buildings, homes and neighborhoods. Developed by the US Green Building Council (USGBC), LEED is intended to provide building owners and operators a concise framewo...

...make creating green data centers possible, including government agencies and private research groups like the US Green Building Council and the Energy Star Program.  Next, it discusses the importance of choosing a coloca...

...South Jordan, Utah. Topaz is eBay’s first wholly-owned data center and it was awarded LEED Gold status by the US Green Building Council. The installation will pay for itself in four years, according to eBay. It includes ...

... that was at the same time adoptable to customer requirements. Data center wholesaler Vantage has secured the US Green Building Council’s highest-tier award in recognition of environmental friendliness of the second of t...

...l Design) standard for energy efficient buildings, the highest rating possible in the ratings overseen by the US Green Building Council. Although the LEED program was not designed with data centers in mind, the industry’...

...the US’ largest end user-owned solar array. Apple said the Maiden, North Carolina facility has been given the US Green Building Council’s LEED Platinum certification, adding,”We know of no other data centre of comparable...

...uare-foot CA2 data center was awarded Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Gold certification by the US Green Building Council. “We are delighted that our customers are able to benefit from the improved energy e...

...stry, many projects in the region have been voluntarily designed and built according to a revised form of the US Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) rating system. The developmen...

...t will soon support one of the world’s most powerful supercomputers received LEED Gold certification from the US Green Building Council. Even with 24MW of critical load, the National Petascale Computing Facility on site ...

The amount of data the world stores is on an explosive growth curve. According to research outfit IDC, the digital universe will grow 44 times larger over the course of the decade, thanks to the rise of worldwide obsessions with things like social media and cloud computing. And that means more data centers. But this data center boom comes at a time of high energy prices and heightened concern about carbon emissions. The days of cramming truck loads of servers into a room and firing up a bunch of industrial air-conditioners to cool them are over. Data center operators are gaining control of their energy bills and earning green points by increasing data center efficiency, from server processor chips to warehouse-size buildings. There’s no how-to manual on building green data centers. The industry is feeling its way on energy efficiency — and no two data centers are alike.

...on the massive Silicon Valley campus it bought from Intel in June 2010 got Platinum – the highest tier of the US Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design rating for sustainable building proj...