Smart grid technology and solutions for renergy reduction in offices and networks from Cisco Systems have earned the company a top ranking in the latest Cool IT Leaderboard ranking from the environmental group Greenpeace.
The EPA's Andrew Fanara, who has worked closely with the data center industry, will soon be departing. Fanara provides an update on his transition and the progress of the various Energy Star projects for the data center industry.
Intel (INTC) said today that it has earned a LEED Gold rating for IDC 9, its new data center in Israel, which is scheduled to open in June and features numerous design and technology innovations.
For Earth Day 2010, we're looking at the progress of the data center industry in adopting the LEED standard, including the upper tiers of the rating system. Here's a list of the exclusive club of data centers that have earned LEED Platinum status.
When it comes to green data centers, a key pioneer was the Fannie Mae Technology Center in Urbana, Md., which in 2005 became the first data center to earn certification under the LEED program for energy efficient buildings.
A day after leading data center builders criticized proposed changes to guidelines on data center cooling, ASHRAE said the proposed changes would not force data center builders to use fresh air cooling, but leave room for alternative approaches.
Will carbon regulation drive companies to relocate their data center operations to third-party providers in colocation and hosting centers? Or even move them offshore? Both options are getting scrutiny following the April 1 onset of the UK's...
Awareness of data center water usage is likely to gain a higher profile as environmental groups and investor advocates push for increased disclosure of corporate water usage.
Google and Microsoft respond to a Greenpeace report asserting that cloud computing will contribute to climate change. Their response: the Internet is mighty green, and our data centers are getting greener all the time.
The Green Grid today is announcing that leading data center consortiums in the U.S., Europe and Japan have agreed to make Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) "the industry’s preferred energy efficiency metric."