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Digital Realty Outlines Energy Saving Efforts

May 11, 2015 by Linda Hardesty

The data center provider Digital Realty Trust announced updates to its sustainability initiatives related to saving energy. In late 2014, Digital Realty joined the Better Buildings Challenge, a Department of Energy initiative to improve energy efficiency in data centers by 20 percent by 2020. Paul Finch, Digital Realty’s Senior Technical ... Read more »

Reducing Energy Challenges Data Center REITs

January 30, 2015 by Linda Hardesty

Aaron Binkley, director of sustainability at Digital Realty Trust, joined REIT.com to discuss the unique sustainability challenges facing the data center sector. Digital Realty, a provider of data center and colocation solutions, is offering clients renewable energy certificates (RECs) under its new Clean Start Program.

Digital Realty Gives RECs to Data Center Clients

January 23, 2015 by Linda Hardesty

Digital Realty, a provider of data center and colocation solutions, is offering clients renewable energy certificates (RECs) under its new Clean Start Program. Digital Realty clients that sign a qualifying new lease will automatically receive RECs commensurate with the electricity they consume during the first year of their lease. This ... Read more »

Data Center Update: Google Harnesses Wind Power in Finland; Digital Realty Deploys its Own Modules

June 5, 2013 by Linda Hardesty

For its Finnish data center, Google has inked agreements with O2 and Allianz to supply the data center with wind energy for the next 10 years. Wind farm developer O2 has obtained planning approval to build a new 72 MW wind farm in northern Sweden, using 3 MW wind turbines. ... Read more »

Data Center Efficiency ‘Behind’ Security in Expansion Criteria

April 8, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Some 98 percent of large corporations are planning to expand their data centers in 2013 or 2014, but just 14 percent of those named energy efficiency as the single most important factor influencing their expansion plan, according to research by Digital Realty Trust. Security was named as the most influential reason ... Read more »

Facebook, eBay, Microsoft and Yahoo ‘New Breed’ of Efficient Data Center Operators

October 12, 2012 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Facebook, eBay, Microsoft and Yahoo represent a “new breed” of data center operator, taking an integrated approach to save energy and costs and meet growing data center demand, according to a report by 451 Research. Highly Efficient Data Centers in Practice includes case studies on what 451 Research calls the ... Read more »

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