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Dominion, Power Assure to Attach Data Centers to Smart Grid

November 23, 2011 by Leon Walker

Virginia utility Dominion Power has invested $1 million in data center power management software company Power Assure as the companies begin a partnership to integrate data centers into the smart grid. Dominion describes data centers as an “excellent fit” for smart grid integration, citing their high power density, the amount ... Read more »

World’s Second-Largest Data Center Nabs LEED Gold

November 17, 2011 by Tamar Wilner

Quality Technology Services has achieved LEED Gold certification at its Atlanta Metro facility, which it says is the world’s second-largest data centers. LEED president Rick Fedrizzi said QTS’s achievement is all the more impressive because of the difficulties inherent in a multi-tenant data center, where individual tenant agreements require specific ... Read more »

Modular Data Centers Make Business and Environmental Sense, Report Says

November 16, 2011November 16, 2011 by Leon Walker

Pre-engineered and prefabricated data centers now make environmental and economic sense, according a report by environmental IT research consortium The Green Grid. According to Deploying and Using Containerized/Modular Data Center Facilities, this new modular approach to the construction and deployment of a data centers can be rapidly deployed, have lower ... Read more »

Elliptical’s R.A.S.E.R. HD May Achieve PUE of 1.03

November 11, 2011November 11, 2011 by Leon Walker

The R.A.S.E.R. HD modular data center unit from Elliptical Mobile Solutions (EMS) is capable of maintaining very low values – 1.03 or better – for power usage effectiveness (PUE), according to recently released test results, the company reported. GKK Works conducted the testing on R.A.S.E.R. HD, a rack-level, container-based data center, saying ... Read more »

The Elephant In the Data Center?

November 8, 2011November 8, 2011 by Jennifer Hermes

The whole concept of “green” computing has been focused in recent times on the metric introduced by The Green Grid, PUE, Power Usage Effectiveness. PUE is simply the ratio of total facility power divided by the IT load itself. So a PUE of 2 represents a facility where for every ... Read more »

IBM Unveils Data Center Solar Array

November 4, 2011 by Leon Walker

IBM has unveiled what it says it the world’s first solar array designed specifically for high-voltage data centers at its software development lab in Bangalore, India. The 6000-square-foot rooftop system is capable of providing a 50 kw supply of electricity for up to 330 days a year, for an average ... Read more »

HP Data Center Project ‘to Reduce Energy up to 89%’

November 2, 2011November 2, 2011 by Tamar Wilner

HP has unveiled Project Moonshot, an initiative to reduce data center energy use by up to 89 percent through the sharing of storage, networking, management, power and cooling across thousands of servers. HP says the project will simplify data centers for companies operating thousands of servers, by using up to ... Read more »

Allianz Deploys IO Anywhere Modular Data Center

October 31, 2011November 1, 2011 by Leon Walker

Allianz Global Investors of America has deployed IO’s IO Anywhere, a modular data center technology platform. By choosing the modular platform, Allianz expects to avoid the upfront commitment of a multiple megawatt power plan, resulting in significant operating and capital expense savings. The solution was delivered to Allianz in 90 ... Read more »

Apple Quietly Plans Solar Array for $1bn Data Center

October 31, 2011November 1, 2011 by Tamar Wilner

Apple is quietly planning a solar farm near its newly opened, $1 billion Project Dolphin data center in Maiden, N.C., according to news reports. The Charlotte Observer says that the county has approved permits for Apple to reshape about 171 acres of vacant land that it owns across from the ... Read more »

Economizers Shave 20% off Data Center Energy Costs

October 13, 2011October 14, 2011 by Tamar Wilner

Nearly half of data centers are using economizers to provide natural cooling, and they are saving an average of 20 percent off their energy costs, according to a survey by the Green Grid. The survey (pdf) of 115 people working on data centers of 2,500 square feet or larger found ... Read more »

Symantec Nearly Doubles LEED Facilities

September 29, 2011September 29, 2011 by Tamar Wilner

In FY11, Symantec nearly doubled its number of LEED-certified buildings from nine to 16, including an enterprise data center, according to the company’s 2011 Corporate Responsibility report. The security software company, perhaps best known for the Norton antivirus line, said it also now has ten Energy Star buildings, including an ... Read more »

Environmental Software Briefing – Autodesk Cloud, BigBelly, PDI PowerMap, Raritan

September 29, 2011September 30, 2011 by Leon Walker

3D design and engineering software creator, Autodesk, has released Autodesk Cloud, a subscription-based service collection of more than a dozen web-based capabilities, products and services including its Green Building Studio. The web-based energy analysis tool allows architects and designers to perform a whole building analysis, review energy efficiency, and work ... Read more »

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