When you see a pig farm, landfill or water treatment plant, can you envision a data center on that site? Microsoft can, and has major ambitions to tap sources of biogas to create a network of "off the grid" server farms to power its global cloud.
The data center is fraught with power and cooling challenges. For every 50 kW of power the data center feeds to an aisle, the same facilities typically apply 100-150 kW of cooling to maintain desirable equipment inlet temperatures. Most legacy...
A methane-powered modular data center in Cheyenne, Wyoming will kick off Microsoft's ambitious plan to place data centers alongside sources of renewable energy, creating “data plants” than operate with no connection to the utility power grid.
The data center is fraught with power and cooling challenges. For every 50 kW of power the data center feeds to an aisle, the same facilities typically apply 100-150 kW of cooling to maintain desirable equipment inlet temperatures. Most legacy...
Data center operators understand how the growing demand for compute cycles, web-based applications and content are driving data centers to find new ways to keep power consumption in check. While doing so, enterprise data centers managers continue...
Wipro Technologies, the global IT consulting and outsourcing business of Wipro Limited, has achieved LEED Gold certification for its flagship data center at Kings Mountain.
The Green Data Center Conference and Exhibition (known as GDCON) – Bay Area will kick off next Tuesday and go through Thursday at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara.
Google has cut a deal with a local utility to provide wind energy for the power grid supporting a large Google data center in Pryor, Oklahoma. The environmental group Greenpeace hailed the agreement as a model for how cloud computing firms can...
The New York Times today kicks off a series of articles on the data center industry,offering a tough indictment of the data center industry and its energy use and environmental impact. But is this a current picture of the state of "cloud factories...
Fortune Data Centers says the efficiency initiatives in its Oregon data center have will bring a $500,000 award from Energy Trust of Oregon.
