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Green data center

Article | 14/10/2010 Ice balls help data center go green
Green isn't usually the first color that comes to mind when one visits the hot, dry desert climate of Phoenix, where temperatures recently topped 109 ...
Article | 13/10/2010 Capgemini opens Merlin data center in UK with PUE of 1.1
Capgemini opened the doors on a new data center near London on Tuesday that it sees as a showcase for green design.
Article | 1/10/2010 Icelandic company claims 100% carbon neutral storage
Icelandic hosting company GreenQloud has launched what it claims is the world's first carbon-neutral cloud service. The company has teamed up with obj...
Article | 29/09/2010 Leading EU broadband providers commit to energy saving
An additional 16 broadband providers and data center companies have signed up to the European Commission's initiative to reduce electricity consumptio...
Article | 20/09/2010 Yahoo opens 'chicken coop' green data center
Yahoo is opening a data center in upstate New York that uses a radical new design to reduce energy costs by 40 percent, the company said Monday.
Article | 15/09/2010 New mobile charger cuts 'vampire' power drain to zero
A team at London's City University has been granted a patent on a new 'green' technology that stops phone, laptop and MP3 chargers eating electricity ...
Article | 9/09/2010 Oracle board against sustainability proposal
Oracle's board of directors has weighed in against a shareholder proposal calling for the creation of a board-level committee on sustainability, accor...
Article | 2/09/2010 Fujitsu says green IT services can cut bills by 20 percent
Most of the talk about IT energy efficiency has focused on the data center, but office equipment like PCs and printers can offer plenty of opportunity...
Article | 1/09/2010 Dell hawks its new modular data center
Dell has been relatively quiet about its modular data-center products, but on Tuesday it showed off a new design it has started selling to large "hype...
Article | 30/08/2010 Purdue app slows servers when cooling fails
While chip manufacturers continue to make their processors ever more powerful, at least one customer has found it useful to slow these chips down, at ...
Article | 4/08/2010 Facebook doubles the size of its first data center
Facebook has decided to double the size of its planned data center in Oregon before the first part of the project is even built, the latest sign of th...
Article | 28/07/2010 Microsoft Hohm outs home energy hogs
Microsoft has expanded its Hohm energy monitoring portal so home owners can see, directly from their personal computers, how much power their homes us...
Article | 21/07/2010 Google Invests in Wind Farm: And 5 More Investments
Google plans to become carbon neutral at the same time promote green energy by entering into a 20-year agreement to buy power from an Iowa wind farm. ...
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 ...