Apple said Thursday that it has achieved 100 percent renewable energy at all of its data centers, including facilities in North Carolina, Oregon, California and Nevada.
Squeezing more efficiency and density out of bleeding-edge facilities is the next phase in the data center arms race. An example: Microsoft continues to refine the design of new data halls in its Dublin data center.
Why aren't more companies building data centers in a seemingly ideal location in Upstate New York? Local officials in Lockport, N.Y. say a data center company that spent two years evaluating a site near Yahoo has backed out die to a lack of dark...
The Green Grid continues to broaden its scope. The industry group is proposing an electronics disposal metric for commercial end-users of IT equipment, and believes that its new Electronics Disposal Efficiency (EDE) metric will boost recycling and...
One of the latest design trends is using waste heat from a data center hot aisle in a district heating system for an office building. Canada’s Telus Corp. provides the latest example of this, tapping waste heat from its data center in Vancouver ...
This is the fifth article in a best practices series on data center energy efficiency through effective airflow management strategies. When considering containment providers and their solutions, make sure to do your due diligence. Consider the...
Amsterdam-based Switch Datacenters has formed an incubator for energy efficiency technologies. We recently conducted an email Q&A with Gregor Snip, Technical Director of Switch Datacenters, about the incubator program..
