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.