As strange as it sounds, the first LEED-certified data center didn’t belong to an IT giant, not Google, not Microsoft and not even Apple. Five years ago, Fannie Mae had the distinction of having the first LEED-certified data center. Now,…
Green IT News Roundup – Monday, April 19
Today’s highlights in green computing, data center energy efficiency and eco-friendly gadgets. Fanara to leave US EPA for OSIsoft – DatacenterDynamics The EPA’s public face for its Energy Star for the Data Center initiative leaves for the San Leandro, Calif.-based…
Ubisoft to Eliminate Paper Manuals
Shedding some plastic in game cases isn’t the only way video game makers are going green. Ubisoft has announced that the company is going to stop the practice of including game manuals with its Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 games….
Data Centers: Watch the Water
Here’s an interesting stat from Data Center Knowledge this week. A 15-megawatt data center can use up to 360,000 gallons of water for cooling… each day. That’s enough to fill 7,200 standard-sized, 50-gallon bathtubs. It’s for this reason, and…
Earth Hour 2010
It’s that time of year again. Tomorrow, Saturday March 27 marks the arrival of Earth Hour, the World Wildlife Fund’s climate change awareness campaign. To participate, just turn off the lights for an hour starting at 8:30 pm. That’s…
Smart Grid Industry Steps Up
While utilities are taking lumps from disgruntled customers, it doesn’t take a genius to know that the ill will eventually to trickle down to smart meter makers and smart grid infrastructure providers in a way that can really affect their…
MovinCool intros variable speed, affordable mini-CRAC
Cheap and energy efficient? Surely not! MovinCool, a brand of Japan’s DENSO Corporation, has taken the wraps off the CM25, a 25,000BTU/h, ceiling-mounted server room cooling unit that comes in just shy of the $7,000 mark. Among its many eco-friendly…
Ford Saves Big with LEDs
Enough to pay for a huge LED retrofit, at least. Using a financing system similar to the “soft loan” “Warner homes, greener homes” program being launched in the UK to fund energy efficient home upgrades, New England Energy Management is…
Enforcing Efficiency with Armies of Ubiquitous, Long-lived Sensors
Sensors are becoming critical to maximizing energy consumption in data centers, but IBM feels that it can spread the love to other areas. Computerworld’s Patrick Thibodeau writes: IBM isn’t building sensors, but it expects to see wide adoption of sensor…
Green PCs: Energy Efficiency and Performance
A green PC is the sum of its parts. Credit: bit-tech.net A “green” PC isn’t really energy efficient if it consumes less electricity at the expense of performance. That’s the subject of bit-tech.net’s excellent article that tackles the green…
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