Green Data Centers

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• Apple: iDataCenter Power Will Be 100% Green

  May 17th, 2012 : Rich Miller

  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 cells from Bloom Energy, will allow it to supply 60 percent of the power requirements for its data center through on-site generation of renewable energy. Read More

• QTS Data Centers Add 1 Megawatt of Solar

  May 17th, 2012 : Rich Miller

  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. Read More

• Data Centers Scale Up Their Solar Power

  May 14th, 2012 : Rich Miller

  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. Read More

• How to Choose a Green Colocation Provider

  May 4th, 2012 : Michael Potts

  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 well as its carbon footprint.  Deciding which green service provider to choose for your data center can [...] Read More

• iDataCenter Will Use Landfill-Powered Bloom Boxes

  April 30th, 2012 : Rich Miller

  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, Read More

• Microsoft Data Plants Will Tap Landfills, Sewage for Power

  April 19th, 2012 : Rich Miller

  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 modular data centers will be powered by renewable energy. Read More

• Facebook, eBay Among Uptime Green IT Winners

  April 18th, 2012 : John Rath

  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. Read More

• Apple: Greenpeace’s Cloud Math is Busted

  April 17th, 2012 : Rich Miller

  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 "dirty"energy sources to power their cloud computing operations. Read More

• eBay Adds Solar Panels to Topaz Data Center

  April 10th, 2012 : Colleen Miller

  E-commerce giant eBay unveiled its largest solar installation to date today, situated atop its "Topaz" data center located in South Jordan, Utah. Read More

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