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CRAC Retrofit Saves Datacenter 38 Percent in Power Costs

Digi-CRAC technology is saving the Cisco Yintai Data Center in Beijing, China, 38% in annual electrical costs while reducing thermal stress on mission critical equipment. Full article

Datacenter Community Expands Energy-Awareness

There's a change afoot in the normally conservative datacenter industry. A laser focus on reliability/uptime has expanded to include energy-efficiency. Full article

Bloom Energy Launches Fuel Cell Leasing Program

Bloom Energy announced a new leasing program in conjunction with Bank of America Merrill Lynch that aims to make fuel cells more accessible. Full article

Cooling from the Inside

To the datacenter professional, keeping equipment cool requires a lot of money and energy, but what if the computer could be cooled from the inside? Full article

Alternatives to Traditional Backup Power

A reliable secondary source of power is critical for datacenters. While backup generators and uninterruptible power supplies have stood the test of time, there are some newer options that are worth exploring. Full article

Datacenters Seek Geographical Advantage

As datacenter operation and maintenance costs continue to rise, large-scale operations are looking to geographical cures: sites that offer low cost green energy, cold temperatures and a "business-friendly" tax structure. Remote locations do not make sense for all businesses, however. Full article

Supermicro Case Study Explores TCO Advantage

Datacenter managers are constantly searching for ways to reduce expenses while raising efficiency at the same time. In a new white paper, Supermicro claims the company's high-performance servers can help meet both goals. Full article

Some Like IT Cold: Intelligence Agencies Push for Low-Power Exascale

Like the rest of the research world, intelligence agencies are facing some difficult challenges when it comes to fielding the next generation of supercomputers. To help usher in a more efficient mode of computing, the US intelligence community is investing in superconductive computing research. Full article

No Federal Datacenter Left Behind

With less than two years left to hit 2015 targets and limited funding for the effort, federal datacenter managers are looking to alternative financing solutions, like Energy Savings Performance Contracts (ESPCs). Full article

Flash Successor Delivers: Faster, Denser and Low-Power

Startup Crossbar emerges from stealth mode with a new class of flash memory that is substantially faster and more energy-efficient than existing NAND technology. More compact too: 1 TB of data fits on a chip smaller than a postage stamp. Full article

Modular Datacenters – What’s in a Name?

When Compass Datacenters began branding its approach as "truly modular," the strategy had unintended consequences. Full article

Pan-European Datacenter Research Project Commences

The European Commission has awarded 1.7 million Euros (US$2.26 million) to a datacenter-focused R&D initiative. Full article

LoPoCo – How Low Can You Go?

Low Power Company (LoPoCo) offers a line of low-power consumption, ultra-efficient servers designed to help businesses cut their datacenter operations bill in half. Full article

Toward a Low-Carbon Datacenter

According to a new study, large datacenters could slash greenhouse gas emissions by 88 percent by switching to highly efficient equipment and implementing energy management practices. Full article

DC Robot to Ease Datacenter Monitoring

To the growing list of innovative and budget-friendly datacenter measurement tools, we welcome EMC India's DC Robot. Full article

Students Cruise on Sunlight to the World Solar Challenge

<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/97a85564ab.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="64" border="0" />It only took a group of students from the Netherlands six months to build a vehicle that looks like it’s been beamed back in time from the future. The 22 students from Eindhoven University of Technology came together from across multiple disciplines to create an innovative new ... Full article

Bursting through Barriers to Better Cooling

<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/watercooling.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="71" border="0" />Whether you are cooling manufacturing equipment, your data center, or even a nuclear power plant, the search for better, more efficient ways to keep temperatures down is an ongoing one. But a recent breakthrough could help liquid cooling of all types, across an expansive list of applications. Full article

Turning Trash Into Renewable Energy for the Datacenter

Renewable energy developer Vieste Energy is partnering with green building design firm ESD (Environmental Systems Design, Inc.) on a national portfolio of 100 percent renewable energy datacenters. Full article

Google Continues Green Push with ISO 50001 Certification

Google deploys its ISO 50001 certified energy management system to multiple North American datacenters. Full article

Makers Put Affordable, Open-Source Plane in the Works

<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/mp1-0-side-render.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="53" border="0" />It may now be possible to build a plane yourself at a very reasonable price tag. It's called Maker Plane, and it's an open source, two-seater airplane that will be affordable, high quality, and most importantly, safe. Full article

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