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  • 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

  • AOL Retires 9,500 Servers in Uptime Roundup

    March 29th, 2012 : Rich Miller

    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. Read More

  • Second Vantage Facility Earns LEED Platinum

    March 27th, 2012 : Rich Miller

    Vantage Data Centers said today that its V2 data center in Santa Clara, Calif. has earned a Platinum certification from the LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) program. Platinum is the highest level of the LEED rating system for energy efficient buildings. Read More

  • Is Solar Power for Data Centers a Bad Idea?

    March 19th, 2012 : Rich Miller

    Solar power has become the hot new accessory for major data centers. But do these solar arrays make sense, given the current economics of solar energy and the volume of power required? James Hamilton of Amazon challenges the wisdom of on-site solar for data centers. Read More

  • Google Recycling Water for Atlanta Data Center

    March 15th, 2012 : Rich Miller

    A Google data center near Atlanta is recycling waste water to cool the thousands of servers housed in the facility, and then purifying the excess water so it can be released into the Chattahoochee River. Read More

  • How Many Data Centers Are LEED Platinum?

    February 24th, 2012 : Rich Miller

    For data centers, LEED Platinum remains a fairly exclusive club. We've identified 12 of these facilities. Check out our updated illustrated guide to LEED Platinum data centers. Read More

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