Apple is doubling the size of its already-huge solar array at its data center in North Carolina, buying another 100 acres of land to house a second large installation of solar panels. The company said the expansion, along with its plan to use fuel...
Data center service provider QTS (Quality Technology Services) is building new solar power installations at its Richmond and Atlanta Metro Data Centers that will provide a total of one megawatt of power generation capacity upon completion.
What would an aircraft carrier look like when it's covered with an array of solar panels? The 2 megawatt solar array atop the DuPont Fabros Technology data center in New Jersey will give you an idea.
Increases in energy costs have greatly impacted the operational costs of data centers, especially the costs to cool and power facilities. Going in a more “green” direction within the data center can significantly reduce an organization’s costs as...
Apple will use biogas from landfills to generate electricity for its massive data center in North Carolina, the company said in a regulatory filing. The biogas will be converted into power using fuel cells from Bloom Energy,
Microsoft is planning a waste-powered data center that will be built on the site of a water treatment plant or landfill, the company said Wednesday. The project will be the first step towards Microsoft's goal of deploying "data plants" where...
eBay, Facebook and Verizon Wireless are among the winners in the The Uptime Institute's 2012 Green Enterprise IT (GEIT) Awards, which recognize pioneering advancements for significantly improved energy productivity in IT and data center operations.
Apple says it will use 20 megawatts of power at full capacity in its North Carolina data center, about one-fifth the amount estimated by Greenpeace in a report that is sharply critical of Apple and other data center operators for relying upon ...
E-commerce giant eBay unveiled its largest solar installation to date today, situated atop its "Topaz" data center located in South Jordan, Utah.
AOL retired and recycled nearly 9,500 servers in less than six months to prevail in a "roundup" designed to highlight the energy savings available through decommissioning older servers.
