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Whirlpool Cuts Water Use by Nearly 22% from 2004 to 2008

Whirlpool Cuts Water Use by Nearly 22% from 2004 to 2008
Whirlpool Corp. is on track to cut its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 6.6 percent by 2012, according to the company's first global ...

GE, Whirlpool, Others Launch Smart Green Grid Initiative

GE, Whirlpool, Others Launch Smart Green Grid Initiative
GE, Whirlpool Corp. and other technology and utility businesses have established a new collaborative effort aimed at demonstrating the ...

Stop Cooling the Data Center

Stop Cooling the Data Center
Cooling is not going to be a major contributor to data center costs in five years. In fact, in five years, the temperature in ...

Green Grid Tools Support Data Center Efficiency

Green Grid Tools Support Data Center Efficiency
The Green Grid has launched several new tools and reports to help global businesses improve the energy efficiency of their data centers and operations. These ...

Data Centers – Where Did All the Water Go?

Data Centers – Where Did All the Water Go?
I'd like you to start thinking about how much water your data center uses a day, a month, and a year. Not just for personnel, but ...

Online Calculator Gauges IT Data Center Costs and Carbon Footprint

Online Calculator Gauges IT Data Center Costs and Carbon Footprint
A new online calculator allows companies to estimate the carbon footprint and related costs from their data centers, as well as from co-location facilities. The Eco-IT Monitor is a project between SGI, Intel ...

Yahoo! Dropping Carbon Offsets for Greener Data Centers

Yahoo! Dropping Carbon Offsets for Greener Data Centers
Yahoo's co-founder David Filo, together with New York Governor David Paterson and Senator Chuck Schumer, announced plans to build the greenest and most energy-efficient data centers ...

Climate Policy Tracker Tracks Progress in 33 States

Climate Policy Tracker Tracks Progress in 33 States
The New America Foundation's Climate Policy Program has launched an online tool that allows state-by-state tracking of hundreds of carbon and energy saving measures. The ...

73% say Energy Efficiency is Key Factor for Green Datacenters

73% say Energy Efficiency is Key Factor for Green Datacenters
A new study from Digital Realty Trust Inc., a wholesale datacenter provider, indicates that 73 percent of the survey participants identified energy efficiency as the key ...

The Key to Major Data Center Savings? Concrete Floors

The Key to Major Data Center Savings? Concrete Floors
By simply using concrete floors and an overhead cooling system, it has been found that a company can gain IT data center energy efficiency. Because such a ...

Green Grid Launches “Free Cooling” Online Tool

Green Grid Launches “Free Cooling” Online Tool
North American data center and facilities managers now have a "free cooling" tool to help them lower their energy consumption and related costs. The ...

Green Grid Launches New Data Center Efficiency Guidelines

Green Grid Launches New Data Center Efficiency Guidelines
The Green Grid launched new data center energy efficiency reporting guidelines and a "data center 2.0" program at its second annual technical forum. The New Data Center ...

Intel Thinks Solar Could Power Data Centers

Intel Thinks Solar Could Power Data Centers
Intel plans to test the potential for using photovoltaic solar energy to power its data centers. The company has set up an array of 64 Sharp solar panels, capable of generating 10 ...

How To Benchmark Data Center Energy Costs

How To Benchmark Data Center Energy Costs
There are two ways to benchmark data center energy costs, writes  Techmanic.com. The first, Corporate Average Datacenter Efficiency (CADE), was developed by the Uptime Institute and measures energy efficiency. The institute ...

IT Leaders’ Green-Tech Predictions for 2009

IT Leaders’ Green-Tech Predictions for 2009
InfoWorld's Ted Samson recently asked IT leaders to share their green-tech predictions for 2009. Most said economic and political conditions will continue to embrace greener practices, albeit sometimes at a slower ...

Server MPG – It’s Time for Action

Server MPG – It’s Time for Action
Would you buy a car if you had no idea about its MPG rating?  Especially with today’s volatile fuel prices, it seems like a crazy idea. But that’s the situation in data centers today, because there’s ...

Green Grid Supports EU’s Code of Conduct on Data Center Energy Efficiency

Green Grid Supports EU’s Code of Conduct on Data Center Energy Efficiency
The Green Grid announced support for the recently-released European Commission's Code of Conduct on Data Center Energy Efficiency. The Code of Conduct is a voluntary commitment of European companies, and aims to ...

AT&T Expects To Save 135 M kWh Electricity With 1E Software

AT&T Expects To Save 135 M kWh Electricity With 1E Software
AT&T is launching 1E's NightWatchman PC power management solution on 310,000 desktop computers across its domestic operations to help improve energy efficiency. The company says powering down corporate PCs during non-work hours ...

AT&T Releases Sustainability Report

AT&T Releases Sustainability Report
AT&T Inc. released its 2007/2008 Citizenship and Sustainability Report (PDF). The company says it is reducing the environmental impact of its operations and helping customers find ways to reduce their ...

Ways To Fuel Green IT

Ways To Fuel Green IT
Sustainable data centers are something companies must look into because “energy costs are punching holes in profits, making this a fight the IT team can't sit out,” writes J. Nicholas Hoover ...

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