Environmental pressure group Greenpeace wants to Amazon Web Services to use renewable energy. Peter Judge thinks it has a fight on its hands
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How The Cloud Forced SAP To Go Green
SAP has promised its data centres will be use renewable energy. It's the cloud that forced the change, says Peter Judge
Data Centre Productivity Will Be Measured In Kittens Per KWh
There's a new measure of data centre efficiency. Peter Judge says it might as well measure kittens per kiloWatt hour
Wearables Need To Be Not Just Smart, But Connected – Intel
Intel expert describes how the physical and digital worlds are coming increasingly closer
Facebook And Ikea Fans Make Flatpack Data Centres
Ikea inspired Facebook's next data centre in Sweden, but Peter Judge says these are not the first flatpack racks
Will Data Centres Take Part In Demand Reduction?
British energy policy is moving towards demand reduction. Peter Judge thinks there may be a way for data centres to take part
Flood Apps Won’t Save The World
The government backed Tech City's bid to make helpful flood apps. Peter Judge wants to know - where's the long-term thinking?
Thames Valley Data Centres Escape Floods – For Now
Slough's data centres have kept out of the floods. Peter Judge suggests they think about contributing to flood defences to keep it that way
A Bitcoin Rig Is Not A Green Data Centre
No matter how efficient a Bitcoin data centre is,,it's just burning more and more electricity for less and less value, says Peter Judge
EU Carbon Trading Chokes On Data Centre Diesels
Data centres burn almost no diesel, but the EU's carbon trading scheme is taxing them by mistake, says Peter Judge
Microsoft Builds Its Waste-Powered Dream Data Centre
Microsoft's plan for a data centre that makes its own electricity sounded fanciful. Peter Judge is pleased it's becoming reality
Obama Is Not Curbing NSA’s Data Centre Activity
President Obama can't halt the NSA's data collection, even if he wanted to, says Peter Judge
Jimmy Wales To Lead Charity MVNO The People’s Operator
Jimmy Wales targets "viral growth" and US expansion in his role as co-chair
Can We Clean The Blood Off Our Gadgets?
Some people doubt whether Intel can clean bloodstained "conflict minerals" from its supply chain, but Peter Judge applauds it for trying
Here’s a Toast To Liquid Cooling!
Liquid cooling dominates the Green500 list - even though it doesn't full measure efficiency, says Peter Judge
Google’s Own-Brand Chips May Not Be ARM-Based
Google is thought to be designing its own ARM chips. Peter Judge says, why not use IBM's Power?
Liquid Cooling – The Gift That Keeps Giving
Besides the obvious benefits, liquid cooling lets you simplify your data centre, says Peter Judge
Does Santa Have a Data Centre In A Box For You?
What's in the package under your Christmas tree? Peter Judge thinks it could be a modular data centre
Does Efficiency Make Any Difference At All?
Cheap efficient data centre just allow us all to consume more, warns Peter Judge
Google And Facebook: Green Goals Clash With Libertarian Leanings
The Internet giants may be cleaning up their energy act, but Peter Judge asks how deep is their care for the planet
Green Taxes Need To Catch Up With Data Centres
Governents want to use green taxes to regulate emissions - but Peter Judge thinks they don't understand the special role of data centres
Does HPC Need A Different Shade Of Green?
Is high-performance computing (HPC) a special case, or does it have the same efficiency needs as the rest of IT, asks Peter Judge
Does The Data Show We Need Green Data Centres?
An efficient data centre is better than an inefficient one, regardless of how you interpret the latest climate data, says Peter Judge
London Buildings Pack MicroGrids And Death Rays
Adding renewable energy to a building makes sense - but solar power can be dangerous, says Peter Judge
All Is Safely Gathered In At The Green Grid’s Harvest Festival
Peter Judge welcomes the fruits of another year's work on data centre efficiency
eBay Proves On-Site Generation Works
On-site generation could be the way forward for data centres, says Peter Judge
Global Warming And The Denialists Who Won’t Go Away
The scientific evidence for man-made climate change is watertight, says Peter Judge. But that doesn't matter to the denialists
Iceland’s Data Centre Saga: Ready For Live Customer Data?
Iceland's green data centre pioneers can now boast of some big customers, says Peter Judge
Why PC Power Management Is Looking Dimmer
Peter Judge used to think PC power management was the coolest thing in Green IT. Now he isn't so sure
Photonics: A Quantum Leap For Data Centres
Silicon photonics has enabled a public-access quantum computer, says Peter Judge,. It will also reshape the data centre