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Virtual Fireside Chat with the Green Grid Executives

It is the mission of The Green Grid Association, a non-profit, open industry consortium, to become the leading authority on resource efficiency in IT and datacenters. The Green Grid's John Tuccillo and Mark ...Full Article

The Path to Software-Defined Power

Fulfilling the potential of green computing in the datacenter requires more than innovative temperature taming techniques; the IT equipment itself has to operate with greater efficiency. A proposed solution incorporates ...Full Article

Iceland Wants Your Datacenter Business

A new independent study conducted by global research outfit BroadGroup Consulting reveals that Iceland is on track to becoming an international datacenter hub. The report describes Iceland's unique advantages: ...Full Article

Mavericks Push the Green Envelope

Power consumption and cooling may be concerns for all IT departments, but high performance computing (HPC) demands large amounts of both. GigaOM held a webinar on Tue., April 23, ...Full Article

Is a Zero-Watt Solution Worth the Wait?

Today's businesses move at a rapid pace. Datacenters need to keep up with that pace. However, a datacenter will use up energy to instantaneously access a file. SGI proposes ...Full Article

Green Revolution Powered by (Mineral) Oil

Austin-based Green Revolution Cooling uses mineral oil as the liquid for its datacenter cooling systems. The idea came to Christiaan Best as a friend described to him the cooling ...Full Article

HP Shoots for the Moon with Efficient New Server

Datacenters consume two percent of the world’s energy. HP introduced their Moonshot 1500 enclosure and Proliant Moonshot servers. According to the company, the Moonshot servers support up to 1,800 ...Full Article

Google Adapts Its Ten Rules to Datacenter Building

Being a tech giant means getting in front of new technologies that promote energy efficiency and a lot of that emphasis has lately fallen on the designing and building ...Full Article

In Defense of ICT’s Impact on Climate Change

From the New York Times article "Power, Pollution and the Internet" to Greenpeace's criticisms of the heavy use of carbon-emitting energy sources by Amazon and other cloud computing datacenters, ...Full Article

Google Invests In Iowa Wind Farm

Google's $75 million investment in the Rippey Wind Farm in Iowa brings its investments in renewable energy to almost $1 billion...Full Article