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Article | 10/08/2011 Using renewable energy in the data center
Earlier this year, social networking giant Facebook finished construction of its newest data center in Pineville, Oregon. In a press release, Facebook...
Article | 9/08/2011 Top 8 ways feds (and corporate users) can take advantage of green IT
How does the federal government go about implementing green IT? According to a report out today from the Government Accountability Office, the feds ha...
Article | 3/08/2011 Google, data centers using less power than expected
Data centers have been using less electricity than you think ... or at least, compared with what they have in the past.
Article | 1/08/2011 Foxconn to rely more on robots for manufacturing
Foxconn, the maker of Apple's iPhone and iPad, plans to rely more on robots for manufacturing over the coming years, allowing the company to invest mo...
Article | 28/07/2011 Dell warranties servers for 'fresh-air cooling'
Dell said Thursday it will warranty servers to run at 113 degrees Fahrenheit (40 degrees Celsius) for a limited number of hours per year, so that cust...
Article | 21/07/2011 Foxconn worker falls to death in suspected suicide
An employee of Foxconn fell to his death in China earlier this week, just a year after a string of suicides at its facilities in the country.
Article | 21/07/2011 US gov't to push e-recycling, energy-efficient electronics
The U.S. government will push its electronics suppliers to provide energy-efficient and easily recycled products under a new policy released Wednesday...
Article | 7/07/2011 Energy hogs: Servers vs. desktops vs. set-top boxes
Set-top boxes supplied by cable companies are likely using more power than desktop and laptop computers, and about 25 per cent of the power used by a ...
Article | 14/07/2011 Emissions from Microsoft, Dell data centers worry residents
Some residents of Quincy, Washington, home of massive data centers operated by Microsoft, Yahoo and others, are growing concerned about pollution from...
Article | 9/07/2011 Intel adds sensors to aid data center cooling
Intel is adding new sensors to its server chips to help companies improve the efficiency of data center cooling systems, with a view to cutting operat...
Article | 2/07/2011 Survey: US agencies aren't tracking data center use
Even though the U.S. White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has pushed government agencies to reduce the number of data centers they operat...
Article | 1/07/2011 How Japan's data centers survived the earthquake
Smart construction and good planning allowed Japan's data centers to escape virtually unharmed from the massive earthquake that rocked the country in ...
Article | 29/06/2011 Romonet brings predictive data center tool to US
Data center engineers looking to maximize energy efficiency can now model design changes using a tool called Prognose from U.K. startup Romonet.
Article | 19/06/2011 Viridity calculates energy cost of applications
Viridity has updated its data center infrastructure management software to let businesses keep track of how much electrical power is being consumed by...
Article | 13/06/2011 Inside HP's prefab data center
The cutaway section of Hewlett-Packard's latest iteration of a prefabricated modular data center has a space-station-like feel to it.