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Article | 21/07/2010 Google signs 20-year deal to buy wind power
Google has signed a 20-year agreement to buy energy from a wind farm in Iowa, giving it access to enough renewable energy to supply several of its dat...
Article | 19/07/2010 Firm promises new take on containerized data centers
I/o Data Centers hopes to leapfrog the competition by developing what it claims will be a new, more integrated type of containerized data center, the ...
Article | 19/07/2010 Virtualization no cure-all for data center energy crunch
Virtualization gave data center managers some breathing room in their battle against rising energy use, but more changes are needed to keep pace with ...
Article | 16/07/2010 Standard proposed for measuring data center efficiency
A group of organizations led by The Green Grid has recommended a standard way for data centers to measure their Power Usage Effectiveness, aiming to b...
Article | 13/07/2010 Energy Efficient Ethernet being put to the test
The University of New Hampshire InterOperability Lab (UNH-IOL) has begun testing Energy Efficient Ethernet (EEE) products to make sure they work toge...
Article | 9/07/2010 Solar plane completes first night flight
In a major triumph for alternative energy researchers and enthusiasts, an experimental, solar-powered plane Thursday successfully completed a 26-hour ...
Article | 9/07/2010 Colt launches modular data center halls
Colt Technology Services Group is looking to attract companies that want to increase their data-center capacity without committing to building a large...
Article | 8/07/2010 HP breaks in new TPC power usage benchmark
The Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) has added a power efficiency metric, TPC-Energy, to its ongoing roundups of speedy transactional ...
Article | 30/06/2010 Cisco energy management can now span enterprise
Cisco Systems on Tuesday announced the Cisco Network Building Mediator Manager 6300, a platform to manage all the systems in an enterprise that consum...
Article | 30/03/2010 Greenpeace protests outside Dell offices to continue
A protest action by Greenpeace in Europe and India against Dell may continue for many days, and be extended to the U.S. in the next stage, a spokeswom...
Article | 8/08/2009 Samsung Reclaim: nice idea, but who recycles phones?
Sprint's US launch of the new Samsung Reclaim, an environmentally friendly <a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/125397/top_10_cell_phones.html">sma...
Article | 20/07/2009 Consumers misinformed about printer pollution: survey
The majority of consumers are misinformed about the biggest source of printing pollution, a new survey shows. Up to 64 per cent of those surveyed beli...
Article | 15/05/2009 Data centre managers concerned about EU green rules
Nearly three-quarters of European data centre managers are concerned about the impact that environmental regulation could have on data centres - altho...
Article | 24/10/2008 eBay's ivory ban: Why it happened and what it means
A newly expanded ivory ban on eBay highlights the challenge of running a global marketplace while complying with local laws. eBay has decided to stop ...