Green Data Center

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Swedish Data Center Saves $1 Million a Year Using Seawater for Cooling

Collocation provider Interxion uses water pumped from the Baltic Sea to cool its data centers Full Story »
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Data Centers Show Signs of 'green Fatigue'

Success stories from cutting-edge firms such as Google and Microsoft are causing a backlash at less capable data centers

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Climate Change Pushes Some Companies to Go Green

Severe weather shifts are forcing companies to rethink their energy strategies; they're using both technology and geography to become more energy independent.

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HP Looks to Moonshot for Data Center of the Future

Seeking to reverse its flagging fortunes and build the foundational layer for the 'Internet of Things,' HP unveils a new class of software-defined server: the HP ProLiant Moonshot.

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EBay Develops 'miles Per Gallon' Metric for Data Centers

The auction site has shared a new methodology for tracking energy efficiency

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Top Tech Companies Plug Into Renewable Power

Leading tech companies like Microsoft, Google and Apple are making huge inroads in the use of renewable energy for corporate facilities and data centers, but cost and delivery challenges remain.

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New SPEC Tool to ID Most Energy-efficient Servers

The EPA and other government agencies will use the tool to award Energy Star ratings

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Microsoft Joins Open Data Center Alliance

The alliance has more than 300 members

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Iceotope plumbs in immersively cooled servers for first customer

The University of Leeds is using an Iceotope server rack to run experimental models -- and to warm a laboratory

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Intel Releases Hadoop Software Primed for its Own Chips

The company says its Hadoop software makes the most of capabilities in its Xeon processors

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HP's first 'Project Moonshot' server due next quarter

HP claims the server consumes up to 89 percent less energy than a traditional x86 server

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How a Private Cloud Saves Money and the Environment

When Ricoh Europe realized its IT environment was both spiraling out of control and environmentally unfriendly, it turned to a IT services provider for help. Working with Infosys, Ricoh developed a private cloud that helped it consolidate nine data centers into two, cutting infrastructure costs and reducing carbon dioxide emissions significantly.

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Facebook Pushes a New Model for Buying Servers

The company says its Open Compute Project will give customers more choice and flexibility in choosing servers

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NEC Data Center Units to Use Convection to Cut Power Use By 30 Percent

The Japanese IT firm said it is working on prototypes for Japan to be completed next year

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Wipro, HP Top Greenpeace List of Green Electronics Companies

Indian technology company Wipro cracked into the Greenpeace Guide to Greener Electronics at the No. 1 spot, a memorable feat that knocked off last year's top dog HP. Apple took a hit in the rankings.