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Katie Fehrenbacher has a piece on GigaOM today, discussing the news that Facebook’s Oregon data center has been awarded LEED gold certification for its energy efficiency. There is also a higher… Read more »
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Katie Fehrenbacher has a piece on GigaOM today, discussing the news that Facebook’s Oregon data center has been awarded LEED gold certification for its energy efficiency. There is also a higher… Read more »
Twenty-one cleantech startups from across the U.S. competed for a grand prize of $250,000 in investment and services at this year’s Cleantech Open Business Competition. And the winners are . . . Read more »
James Hamilton, VP and distinguished engineer for Amazon Web Services, has some hot tips on building or running a cooler, and more energy-efficient data center. Hamilton, something of a data center… Read more »
In a shift that’s analogous to the movement toward cloud computing, work is changing from a place to a network armed with collaboration tools, and this change raising questions about environmental… Read more »
Car sharing continues to roar on as one of the most tangible ways in which we’re seeing an ideal of the cleantech movement—reducing resource consumption—finding market appeal. Capital flowed to peer-to-peer… Read more »
Hot on the heels of recent data center announcements in Finland and Asia, Google today announced plans to build a new data center in Dublin. This joins existing data centers owned… Read more »
Google has aggressively argued that PUE (the measurement of how efficient a data center is) must be constantly measured to be accurate. But there is a need also to go beyond… Read more »
Finland’s chilly weather might be depressing, but it’s the major reason for why the country is the hot new locale for green data centers. Following Google’s construction of its mega, green… Read more »
The latest idea from Facebook on how to revolutionize the data center is elegant in its simplicity: put a switch on hard-disk drives that slows their speed when their data is… Read more »
Achieving the ultimate in green building badges — the LEED platinum certification — is pretty rare and is particularly unusual for data centers. But on Thursday GE showed off its new… Read more »