Warmth and water… Two things that don’t fit the brisk and bone dry image of a data center. But the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), along with HP and Intel, are blazing new trails in IT efficiency with a novel data center cooling system based on warm water for a new high-performance computing (HPC) site […]
Raytheon saves 30 percent in IT energy costs by raising temps
Today’s impressive statistic comes courtesy of this Computerworld article that explores how the defense contractor is cutting energy costs, to the tune of “$23 million in annual savings” in 2010 with a host of energy efficient IT strategies. One of the ways the IT sustainability pros at Raytheon are achieving this is by taking a […]
Green IT “gelled” for CIOs in 2010, spells trouble for raised floors
CIOs are finally getting a handle on this Green IT thing, according to Gartner Research vice president John Phelps. SearchCIO.com reports that eco-consciousness and good ol’ cost savings initiatives have begun to align in earnest this year, resulting in IT strategies that are decidedly green. These include, according to Phelps,the steadily decline of raised floor […]
Emerson unwraps “direct-to-server” cooling system
Emerson Network Power unveiled a targeted cooling system called Liebert XDS that aims to help data center operators keep energy costs low by combating hotspots right in the rack. Liebert XDS brings cold plate server cooling tech from rack-cooling specialist Clustered Systems to industry standard server racks. The cooling plates work their temperature-lowering magic in […]
Yahoo eyes tighter control over server fans
One of the ways Yahoo saves energy in its data centers is by keeping the temperature a rather balmy 75 degrees F in the data center. (Most data centers keep their AC’s cranking year-round to keep temps much cooler, dipping well into the 60’s.) The servers can handle it — and it saves a bunch […]
Tech Vault: Security and green IT mix in Vermont-based data center
Security is the ruling consideration for Tech Vault’s data center, which opened late last month, in South Burlington, Vermont. But that doesn’t mean that there’s no room to run the facility in an energy efficient way. Unsurprisingly, the window-less, hardened facility with backup fiber connectivity exemplifies the “no expense spared” credo of ultra-secure data centers […]
Heat wheels for cool data centers
Targeted cooling, free-cooling, liquid-cooled servers… There are many ways to reduce the cost of cooling data centers, but Montana state’s computing facility takes a different approach that’s long been used in industrial plants. Government Computer News reports that the state contracted with Kyoto Cooling International, a Dutch maker of cooling systems, to outfit its data […]
TierPoint goes geothermal
TierPoint, a provider of colocation and telecom services, is gearing up for a new $8.2 million data center build in Spokane, Wash. One of the hallmarks of the project will be low-power geothermal cooling. According to Greg Zemp, a TierPoint partner, utilizing this unconventional method of lowering IT hardware temps not only reduces energy costs […]
How To Roundup: Hot/Cold Aisles
What are hot/cold air aisles? They are a way of orienting server racks and erecting physical barriers so that hot and cold air are segregated, allowing cooling systems to work more efficiently. The point of this layout is to…
MovinCool intros variable speed, affordable mini-CRAC
Cheap and energy efficient? Surely not! MovinCool, a brand of Japan’s DENSO Corporation, has taken the wraps off the CM25, a 25,000BTU/h, ceiling-mounted server room cooling unit that comes in just shy of the $7,000 mark. Among its many eco-friendly…
