The McGraw-Hill Companies will build a 50-acre solar array to support its data center in East Windsor, New Jersey, the company said today. The $60 million project will add 14.1 megawatts of solar generation, making it the largest initiative yet to...
Going a step beyond the basic information provided by The Green Grid on "PUE 2," here are various additional insights and comments from some of the Task Force organizations that collaborated on the document.
The Data Center Efficiency Task Force recently issued "Version 2 – Measuring PUE for Data Centers," better known as PUE 2. The updated PUE version is meant to clarify and reiterate the updated measurement requirements of the PUE metric.
A task force of data center industry groups has published updated recommendations for energy efficiency measurement and reporting using Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE).
Pennsylvania company Steel Orca is developing a large data center that plans to tap the Delaware River for its cooling system and power its servers using electricity generated from landfills and solar panels.
The average Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) rating for data centers is 1.8, according to a survey of more than 500 data centers conducted by The Uptime Institute.
Solar power hasn’t been widely used in data centers because it takes a very large installation of solar panels to make a dent in their energy requirements. But the month of April has seen the debut of four new data centers featuring on-site solar...
The BendBroadband Vault is just 30 miles down the road from Facebook's huge new data center. But the 30,000 square foot facility, which opened its doors this week, is a data center with its own distinctive story to tell.
Here's a photo tour of the BendBroadband Vault, which integrates a solar array, a cooling system that uses a "heat wheel" (Kyoto Cooling) system, and an efficient design that uses chimney containment to isolate hot and cold air within the data...