Microsoft has begun purchasing renewable energy to support its data center infrastructure, signing a 20-year power purchase agreement for wind energy in Texas that will be funding in part by proceed from Microsoft’s carbon fee.

Cloud file-sharing giant Box has inked an agreement with the environmental group Greenpeace to eventually run its infrastructure entirely with renewable energy.

At this week's 2013 Data Center Efficiency Summit, colocation providers and their customers shared ideas about how they could improve energy efficiency and rely more on renewable power.

GreenQloud has selected Digital Fortress for its 100% renewable energy-powered cloud in the U.S. The company is committed to using only renewable energy for its cloud offerings.

Will Iceland become a growth market for data centers? In this special report we examine Iceland's advantages and challenges as a data center destination, and provide an inside look at the power resources that are central to its ambitions.

For an industry consumed by the pursuit of electric power, Iceland presents almost the perfect profile. Iceland presents an interesting test of how far data centers will go for green energy, and the place of renewables in the site selection equation.

Norway's largest bank, DNB, will house its primary IT operations inside the Green Mountain data center, running its servers in underground data bunkers that once stored ammunition for NATO.

Bloom Energy sharpened its focus on the data center industry, and it's paying dividends. CenturyLink/Savvis is another data center that will use the natural-gas-powered fuel cells in its California facility.

RagingWire is hooking up to Ashburn's reclaimed water loop. The usage of water in the data center has providers looking at innovative ways to reduce their environmental impact.

Which delivers the best energy efficiency: raised-floor space or a modular data center? It's a hard question to answer in a satisfying fashion without comparing apples and oranges. IO has compared the PUE performance of both models within a single...