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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

Microsoft Experimental Data Center To Use Biogas Fuel From Nearby Waste Water Treatment Plant

<p><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Microsoft wants to let you know that it's trying to eliminate carbon emissions from its data centers. To that end, it has revealed ...Full Article

Want A More Efficient Data Center? Get Rid Of Your Old One.

The first round of data denters has been phenomenal. But since they were built for uptime, they're not energy efficient. They don't have the sophisticated DCIM software to make ...Full Article

Why Penguin Computing Entered the ARMs Race

Penguin Computing offered a big shot in the ARM-based server platform business on October 17 when it announced the UDX1 system. Based on Calxeda's EnergyCore Server-on-Chip. The announcement also ...Full Article

The ‘Greenest Data Center In The World’?

Syracuse Univeristy hopes its trigeneration, micro-turbine, absorption chiller data center will inspire others to get sustainable. Built with assistance from IBM and the New York State Energy Research and ...Full Article

How Google Cools Its Data Centers

Most companies may try to justify energy-efficient data centers with ROI, but Google just likes keeping its environmental footprint as small as possible. It does that with a lot ...Full Article