The Green Grid has published a Fresh Air Cooling Map showing the best places in the United States to use outside air to cool data centers, along with a tool to calculate free cooling hours by zip code.
Startup Packet Power LLC has launched a suite of energy tracking products to help data center operators measure and manage the power use in their data centers.
The aggressive new approach to data center temperature has implications for equipment vendors, who are being urged to extend the upper limits of operating temperatures in their warranties.
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon and the University of Michigan say that huge cost savings that could be achieved if servers' power usage could be dramatically lowered when they become idle.
SynapSense has raised $7 million in additional investment, the company said today, and will use the money to further develop its wireless energy sensors and expand beyond its core market in the data center sector.
The Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) is expanding its benchmarks to include power consumption, providing a way for data center managers to compare price, performance and energy efficiency.