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Interxion Uses Seawater to Cool Stockholm Data Center

March 12, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Interxion has cut energy costs at its Stockholm, Sweden data center (pictured) by 80 percent using a cooling system that gets chilled water from the sea, and Google uses a similar technique in Hamina, Finland, ZDNet reports.

Online Dashboard Links Business, Energy Use

March 11, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Ebay has posted a Digital Service Efficiency (DSE) dashboard online that shows the full cost, performance and environmental impact of its customer buy and sell transactions — and it’s hoping other data centers will follow suit. The company says by releasing the DSE, and its corresponding data, it will establish ... Read more »

Coke, Facebook, 14 Others Pledge Workplace Charging

March 7, 2013March 7, 2013 by Leon Walker

The Coca-Cola Company, Facebook and Dell are among 16 companies that have just joined the Department of Energy’s Workplace Charging Challenge, which aims to expand the availability of workplace vehicle charging for American workers. Three new corporate partners have also joined the Department’s National Clean Fleets Partnership. By joining the Workplace Charging ... Read more »

DoD Data Centers to Use Asetek Liquid-Cooling

December 14, 2012 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Asetek has been selected to perform a $2 million project to retrofit a major Department of Defense data center with its direct-to-chip liquid-cooling technology. The product (pictured), called RackCDU (short for Rack Coolant Distribution Unit), brings liquid-cooling directly to the hottest elements inside every server in a data center, and ... Read more »

Fresh Air Cools Facebook Data Center; Apple Doubles Fuel Cell Installation

December 12, 2012December 12, 2012 by Tamar Wilner

Facebook’s new data center in Forest City, N.C. uses outside air to keep its servers cool, and says this direct expansion coil system remained off throughout most of the summer — one of the hottest on record. Meanwhile, Apple has plans to double the size of its fuel cell installation ... Read more »

Waterfree Urinals to Save Bard Over 500,000 Gallons

November 8, 2012November 8, 2012 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Bard College has replaced its flushing urinals with Falcon Waterfree Technologies urinals, which will save more than 500,000 gallons of water a year, according to the waterfree urinals maker. These water savings, the school says, will increase Bard’s Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System (STARS) score, which measures how environmentally ... Read more »

EDF Climate Corps Fellows ‘Average $1m’ in Savings for Host Companies

October 17, 2012October 17, 2012 by Leon Walker

On average, EDF Climate Corps fellows each find $1 million in energy savings for their host organizations, such as Google, Facebook and the Boston public school system. This is more than 60 times what it costs to hire the fellows, EDF says. Members of the program, which places specially trained ... 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 »

Lowe’s, Kohler, KB Home Win EPA Water Awards

October 8, 2012October 8, 2012 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Lowe’s helped its customers save about 4 billion gallons of water last year, and Kohler introduced 40 new water-efficient toilet models to the North American market in 2011, earning both companies EPA awards. Colorado Springs Utilities, American Standard Brands and KB Home also received 2012 WaterSense partners of the year ... Read more »

Facebook Oregon Data Center Reveals Water Use

August 14, 2012August 14, 2012 by Leon Walker

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 »

Facebook Releases Carbon Footprint Data – Emissions 1/5th the Size of Google’s

August 2, 2012August 3, 2012 by Kirsten Korosec

Facebook generated 285,000 metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions and used 532 million kWh of energy last year, according to the company’s 2011 carbon footprint report, the first such data shared by the company. The carbon footprint report released Wednesday includes emissions, energy mix and energy use information for all of ... Read more »

Greenpeace Upgrades Apple Data Center Rating

July 13, 2012July 13, 2012 by Kirsten Korosec

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 »

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