Remember Microsoft’s underwater datacenter concept from a couple of years ago? Where the company stuffed servers and other IT equipment into a big metal tube and dropped it off the coast of California? Microsoft has done it again, this time off the coast of Scotland as part of the second phase of Project Natick, an effort […]
Top 10: Most popular ecoINSITE posts of 2010
It’s that time. Before we welcome a brand new year, here are 2010’s most popular posts according to you! 1. Stats of the Day: BP Oil Spill Google Results Back in June, I ran a little experiment. In terms of Google search results, how did BP’s recent oil spill compare against the previous top environmental […]
Taxes halt green data center momentum in Iceland
In recent months, Iceland was emerging as a prime spot to situate green data centers. The country seemed to be rolling out the red carpet for businesses with the prospect of opening up shop in the geothermally powered, energy free-cooling friendly nation. By all measures, it seemed like a dream come true for technology firms […]
eBay’s Project Topaz: Anatomy of a $300 million green data center
Building, let alone operating, a Tier IV data center to support a business that transacts $2,000 per second — that’s over $172 million per day, $60 billion per year folks — sounds like the makings of a huge energy guzzler. But that’s not the case for Dean Nelson, eBay’s senior director of Global Data Center […]
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…
Making green data centers less taxing
Want more proof that it makes financial sense to go green in the data center? How about tax incentives for going green? Pursuing energy efficiency strategies for the data center is often viewed as a process that takes a while…
Green Data Center Roundup – February 10, 2010
Google Funds ‘Radical’ Efficiency Research – Data Center Knowledge The team will explore ways to create low power modes in servers, allowing parts of the computer to be turned off while other parts remain accessible. The goal is to allow…
Green Data Centers: "Break a Sweat"
Here’s a great quote of the day from HP’s John Bennett, head of data center transformation solutions: “Anyone walking into a data center should break a sweat, not have to wear a jacket.” The idea of a toasty data center…
Greening a Legacy Data Center? Ask a Pro
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…
Facebook Breaks Ground on Green Data Center
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,…
