Here's a future-tech development to watch: Researchers at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China (UNNC) say they've developed a composite building material that can release and retain heat on command.
The upward trend in the growth of data center energy usage has slowed, according to a new study from Stanford professor Jonathan Koomey. The report found that data center power consumption increased by 36 percent from 2005 to 2010.
NTT America announced Thursday that it has deployed Bloom Energy Servers at its Lundy Data Center in San Jose, California. The five Energy Servers will supply 500 kW of total capacity.
Telecommunications giant AT&T will install Bloom Energy fuel cells at 11 sites in California, including some of the companies' data centers and network facilities. The company will use Bloom Energy Servers - known as "Bloom boxes" - to supply...
DC power distribution is making news: ABB installs a Validus DC power system at Swiss hosting firm green.ch, Taiwan's Delta Electronics has a new DC solutions suite featuring UPS units, PDUs and power supplies.
United Metal Products, which specializes in evaporative cooling and modular chilled water plants, found the data center industry moving in its direction not once, but twice.
Data center cooling is a constant issue in both initial design and evolution. But a greater issue is the expense in dealing with the challenge. Beyond the cost of buying, installing and power the CRACs (Computer Room Air Conditioning) units is the...
Google's chiller-less data center in Belgium has become the company's best-performing facility in tracking using the PUE metric, with a PUE of 1.09 in the first quarter of 2011.
Since 2008, the largest players in the data center field have been advocating operating server rooms at warmer temperatures. But few enterprise data centers are following suit, according to data from an industry group.