Here’s an interesting stat from Data Center Knowledge this week. A 15-megawatt data center can use up to 360,000 gallons of water for cooling… each day. That’s enough to fill 7,200 standard-sized, 50-gallon bathtubs. It’s for this reason, and…
Enforcing Efficiency with Armies of Ubiquitous, Long-lived Sensors
Sensors are becoming critical to maximizing energy consumption in data centers, but IBM feels that it can spread the love to other areas. Computerworld’s Patrick Thibodeau writes: IBM isn’t building sensors, but it expects to see wide adoption of sensor…
ET Water smart irrigation tech is WeatherBug-enabled
ET Water Systems announced today a new irrigation controller that can cut water consumption, and hence water bills, by up to 50 percent. According to the company, the system takes several factors into consideration when developing automatic irrigation schedules, including…
IBM Power 7: A Smart Grid Processor?
This week, IBM unveiled the Power7 processor which will show up in four server models set to start shipping within the next few weeks. Mind you, the release of a faster, more powerful and energy efficient chip isn’t earth-shattering news…
2009: Year of the Green Data Center
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…
'Tri-generation' takes Syracuse University's Data Center Off-grid
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…
Green IT News Roundup: Wednesday, September 16
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…
Green IT News Roundup: Tuesday, September 15
Whitehall saves £7 million with greener IT – Computerworld UK Whitehall has extended the life of PCs, made double-sided printing the default option, made sure computers are turned off at night, increased the reuse of IT equipment and increased server…
Dedupe, Thin Provisioning Molding the Future of Enterprise Storage
I recently chatted with Analytico’s Tom Trainer about his new GigaOM Pro report, “The Future of Data Center Storage” (subscription required) and wrote about some of the insights I gleaned for Earth2Tech (thanks Katie!). I was encouraged to find out…
IBM Tops Green500
No stranger to ranking high on the Top500 list of supercomputers, IBM is also racking up eco-points with a formidable presence on the Green500 list. In the latest ranking, IBM dominates the top 20, with the first spot going to…
