The Green Grid has released consolidated recommendations for measuring and reporting the Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) metric in dedicated data center facilities.
NetApp (NTAP) announced that its dynamic data center located at the NetApp technology center in Research Triangle Park (RTP) has become the first facility to earn the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) Energy Star for Data Centers rating
In our Special Report: Data Centers and Renewable Energy, we look at the challenges of implementing renewable energy solutions in data centers, and also highlight early adopters who have implemented on-site renewable solutions.
The Green Data Center Alliance has received a $500K grant that will underwrite the creation of guidelines and best practices to help data centers to significantly lower their energy consumption.
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.
The EvoSwitch data center near Amsterdam has embraced sustainability and is supported by 20 megawatts of renewable power generated by solar, wind and biomass.
Is scrutiny of data centers' low adoption of renewable energy fair? Mark Thiele of Data Center Pulse addresses some key points about the complexity of data center energy sourcing.
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.
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.
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.