As strange as it sounds, the first LEED-certified data center didn’t belong to an IT giant, not Google, not Microsoft and not even Apple. Five years ago, Fannie Mae had the distinction of having the first LEED-certified data center. Now,…
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Unless you’re Microsoft, Google or Facebook, chances are that you can’t simply build a new data center when yours starts getting a little long in the tooth. So how do you cope with an older computing facility that wasn’t exactly…
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In a departure from signing leases with data center companies like Fortune and Digital Realty trust, Facebook broke ground on its own $180 million facility in Prineville, Oregon. Why Prineville? According to the Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal,…
Photo credit: Flickr user information services@bond – Creative Commons It may soon become a signature of green data centers, according to Matthew D. Sarrel of the Sarrel Group. Over at eWeek, he writes that it may come time to say…
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Photo Credit: Flickr user SunGardAvailabilitySvcs – Creative Commons I’ve been covering Green IT for a while now, but this is the first year I that recall not being able to keep track of all the new green data center…
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An interesting story out of Yonkers, N.Y. Students from Polytechnic Institute of New York University performed a little before-and-after analysis of Hudson Valley Bank’s efforts at improving energy efficiency at its data center. All told, the bank was able to…
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It seems that every new data center that opens its doors these days is billed as green, doesn’t it? The $12.4 million, 12,000-square-foot building from IBM and Syracuse University is no different. However, this is one green data center with…
Read more 'Tri-generation' takes Syracuse University's Data Center Off-grid
Apple and the Environment Probably more than you ever wanted to know about Apple and its impact on the environment. Gartner: Turn server heat up to 75 – Computerworld In addition to Gartner’s report, a recent survey by CDW illustrates…
Six Tips For Green (and Greenwash-Free) Data Center Storage – Reuters/GreenBiz Four billion dollars is spent every year on data center energy consumption and this number will only continue to climb. The type of data growth is also a…
Virtualization, dedupe and low-power servers are all hailed as the vanguards of the green data center. Indeed, they are key elements in driving energy efficiency in the data center but there’s one that can have a bigger impact: energy management.It…
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