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NGD Lines Up Renewable Power for UK Data Center
June 8th, 2010 : Rich Miller
Next Generation Data has arranged for a UK power supplier to provide renewable energy to the company's huge new data center in Newport, Wales, which is one of the largest data centers in the world. Read More
Ozzo: Energy-Focused Data Center Design
June 4th, 2010 : John Rath
What might a data center look like if its entire design was guided by the use of renewable energy? The ambitious Ozzo project in the Netherlands seeks to marry IT, architecture, ecology and energy. Read More
Top 500 Highlights Supercomputing Trends
June 2nd, 2010 : John Rath
What the new Top 500 tells us about trends in supercomputing: Growing adoption of Infiniband, ubiquity for quad-core processor systems, continued dominance by the U.S. but serious gains by China. Read More
UK Data Center Industry Links for May 31
May 31st, 2010 : Rich Miller
In data center news from the UK, Logicalis opens a high-density data center on the M4 corridor, Telehouse West has its official opening, and the latest Jones Lang LaSalle survey finds a positive outlook for the data centre industry. Read More
e-shelter Zurich Project Targets LEED Platinum
May 31st, 2010 : Colleen Miller
Data center developer e-shelter is set to begin construction of a 26,000 square meter (279,864 square foot) data center near Zurich that the company expects to gain LEED Platinum certification. Read More
Opera Plans Container Data Center in Iceland
May 21st, 2010 : Rich Miller
Iceland's supply of renewable power has won its first high-profile international data center customer. Web browser developer Opera Software was announced today as the first customer of the Thor Data Center. Read More
Farm-Powered Data Center Being Built in UK
May 20th, 2010 : Rich Miller
HP Labs got a lot of press attention Tuesday for describing a way to use methane harnessed from cow manure to power a data center. But the concept HP described in an research paper is already being built into a UK data center. Read More
Savvis Expands London Data Center
April 28th, 2010 : Rich Miller
Managed hosting and cloud computing specialist Savvis (SVVS) will invest 20 million pounds ($30.4 million US) to expand its UK data centre in Slough, a suburb of London. Read More
Telecity Expands London Powergate Center
April 26th, 2010 : Rich Miller
UK data center specialist TelecityGroup plans to add 21 megawatts (MW) of customer power to its flagship London facility, Powergate. Read More