eBay, Facebook and Verizon Wireless are among the winners in the The Uptime Institute's 2012 Green Enterprise IT (GEIT) Awards, which recognize pioneering advancements for significantly improved energy productivity in IT and data center operations.
Apple says it will use 20 megawatts of power at full capacity in its North Carolina data center, about one-fifth the amount estimated by Greenpeace in a report that is sharply critical of Apple and other data center operators for relying upon ...
E-commerce giant eBay unveiled its largest solar installation to date today, situated atop its "Topaz" data center located in South Jordan, Utah.
AOL retired and recycled nearly 9,500 servers in less than six months to prevail in a "roundup" designed to highlight the energy savings available through decommissioning older servers.
Vantage Data Centers said today that its V2 data center in Santa Clara, Calif. has earned a Platinum certification from the LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) program. Platinum is the highest level of the LEED rating system for...
Solar power has become the hot new accessory for major data centers. But do these solar arrays make sense, given the current economics of solar energy and the volume of power required? James Hamilton of Amazon challenges the wisdom of on-site...
A Google data center near Atlanta is recycling waste water to cool the thousands of servers housed in the facility, and then purifying the excess water so it can be released into the Chattahoochee River.
For data centers, LEED Platinum remains a fairly exclusive club. We've identified 12 of these facilities. Check out our updated illustrated guide to LEED Platinum data centers.