You may already be occupying the greenest data center you’ll ever build, if IBM’s example is anything to go by. The IT behemoth’s newly-refreshed Research Triangle Park facility in North Carolina makes use of cutting-edge efficiency features like sensors, modular IT building blocks and free-cooling to reduce energy consumption by 15 percent and cutting CO2 […]
RFID helps California cut data center energy use
California, much like the U.S. Federal Government, is looking to streamline its data center operations and cut energy use. How? One way the state is accomplishing it, well the latter at least, is by installing RFID-equipped temperature control systems. According to this report in RFID Journal, California’s Department of General Services is installing Federspiel Controls‘ […]
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…
