The Environmental Protection Agency is moving closer to finalizing an Energy Star efficiency rating for servers, which will help data center managers compare energy usage among vendors.
Morgan Stanley plans to spend more $400 million to build a huge data center in Scotland that will be powered by tidal energy, and may seek to lease the huge facility to Google.
The biggest players in the data center industry are raising the thermostats in their data centers, with some saving hundreds of thousands of dollars in energy costs in the process. Discussion from Google (GOOG), Microsoft (MSFT), HP (HPQ), Intel ...
Do servers really need a cool, sterile environment to be reliable? New research from Intel suggests that in favorable climates, servers may perform well with almost no management of the environment.