Energy-Efficient Data Center Technology Tested by Intel, KT
Intel has partnered with South Korean telecom company KT Corporation to develop energy-efficient technology to reduce power consumption at data centers.
Data Centers
Facebook Oregon Data Center Reveals Water Use
Facebook’s Prineville, Ore., data center achieved a water usage effectiveness rating of 0.22 liters per kWh for the 12 months to the second quarter of 2012, a result the social networking giant calls “a strong level of efficiency.” In a blog post for OpenCompute.org. Facebook’s Daniel Lee calls the WUE ... Read more »
Utility ComEd Launches Data Center Efficiency Program
ComEd, a unit of Chicago-based Exelon, has introduced an efficiency program aimed at reducing the energy use of data centers. The utility will work with data center designers, owners and tenants to maximize energy efficiency and improve operations. The utility will provide per-kWh financial incentives and technical assistance. ComEd has ... Read more »
Greenpeace Upgrades Apple Data Center Rating
Greenpeace has adjusted Apple’s grade in an evaluation that ranks industry leaders in cloud computing, and credited the company for making significant improvements in its clean energy policies, but still gave it low scores for its energy choices when compared with sector leaders. The Greenpeace International analysis A Clean Energy Road ... Read more »
Standards & Compliance Briefing: EPA WaterSense, WWF Check Your Paper, LEED v4, R2
Rain Bird’s SST Weather-Based Smart Irrigation Controller has earned the EPA’s WaterSense label for verified water savings for lawn and garden use. The controller has a weather sensor with a built-in database of weather information for specific geographic areas, and is designed for use with an automatic irrigation system, the company ... Read more »
Ebay Taps Bloom for Fuel Cell-Powered Data Center
Internet auction site eBay is partnering with Bloom Energy as it aims to use renewable energy as the primary power source for the next phase of the company’s flagship data center. The Utah data center will be the country’s largest non-utility fuel cell installation when completed and will only use ... Read more »
HP Sustainability Report: CO2 Goal Met Two Years Early
Technology firm Hewlett Packard has met its 2013 goal of a 20 percent reduction in greenhouse gas from its operations over 2005 levels two years early, according to the company’s 2011 global citizenship report. In 2011, HP produced 1.856 million metric tons of CO2, down from 1.865 million metric tons in ... Read more »
Verizon Data Center Installation Cuts Water Discharges 20%
A Verizon data center has been using Clearwater Systems’ Dolphin WaterCare technology to cut water discharges by more than 20 percent, or 1.6 million gallons, compared to chemically treated water, Clearwater says. The project helped Verizon win a 2012 Green Enterprise IT Award from the Uptime Institute. The award, granted ... Read more »
Schneider Electric: EnergySTEP Data Center Assessment Can Improve Power Efficiency 20%
Schneider Electric has introduced EnergySTEP Data Center Assessment, which it says can improve a data center’s power usage effectiveness by 20 percent with a payback period of less than 12 months, into its line of energy management services. With EnergySTEP, a Schneider Electric EMS specialist collects and analyzes data on ... Read more »
HP Unveils Net Zero-Energy Data Center Design
Hewlett-Packard has unveiled designs for a data center that requires no net energy from traditional power grids. The Net-Zero Energy Data Center architecture, designed by HP’s research arm HP Labs, shows how organizations can cut total power use by 30 percent, as well as reduce dependence on grid power and costs ... Read more »
Understanding Data Center Sustainability
For most organizations today, doing business in ecologically responsible ways is a higher priority than ever. As governments enact strict new regulations and awareness grows of issues such as global warming and pollution, more and more businesses are taking aggressive action to lighten their environmental impact. Along the way, they’re ... Read more »
MiserWare Launches IT Power Monitoring Tool
Software company MiserWare has released IT power use monitoring program Granola Enterprise 5.0. The program allows companies to measure the energy use of all of their laptops, PCs and data centers without installing any additional hardware, MiserWare says. The program has been released under the “freemium” model, where the basic ... Read more »