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Thor Icelandic Data Centre Sold To Service Provider

Iceland's Skyrr takes on the Thor containerised data centre and will sell its services worldwide

13 years ago

Flawed Energy Efficiency Incentives Fail Industry

Cutting costs and carbon is critical, but Romonet’s Zahl Limbuwala says the way data centre services are ‘charged back’ is…

13 years ago

Boffins Create Algorithm To Run Data Centres

New formula shows how to keep users happy and keep the energy bills low by increasing server utilisation

13 years ago

Green Data Centres Will Be Measured On Money

PUE and other efficiency measures are useful, but data centre owners are chasing money now, says Peter Judge

13 years ago

Green Grid Plans Online Data Centre Efficiency Tool

Users will be able to compare data centre efficiency using an online tool from the Green Grid

13 years ago

Icelandic Data Centre Uses Modules, Not Containers

Container-based data centres are popular, but Verne Global went with bigger modules in Iceland

13 years ago

Google Says The Cloud Is Green (Of Course)

Google is biased, but it has put together a strong argument for saving money and energy in the cloud, says…

13 years ago

Marilyn Data Centre Uses Vertical Air Cooling

Vertical air cooling improved French designers' energy efficiency - and inspired the name of their data centre

13 years ago

Could Servers Replace Household Boilers?

The Data Furnace is a tiny data centre that could heat your house. Peter Judge is not immediately convinced

13 years ago

Microsoft Proposes Servers As ‘Data Furnace’ Heaters

Small micro-data centres could help to heat homes and run cloud services, says Microsoft

13 years ago

Data Centre To Save Yorkshire Water £90k Per Year

Yorkshire Water is set to save itself £90,000 a year thanks to a new data centre incorporating green tech

13 years ago

Greenpeace Makes Peace With Data Centres

Data centre operators should be more open about their energy use, according to Greenpeace

13 years ago

What Is Behind This New Efficiency Measure?

A new way to measure efficiency for data centre servers seems to duplicate and misrepresent other measures, says Peter Judge

14 years ago

Data Centre Measure Rates Transactions Per Joule

Power Assure says PAR4 measures how much work your servers do. Doesn't SPECpower already do that?

14 years ago

Data Centres: What’s In A Green Label?

Energy efficient data centres are complex. But the information about them needs to be as simple to read as food…

14 years ago

Greenpeace TV Ad Pushes Facebook On Coal Power

A Greenpeace advert aims to shame Facebook into giving up coal-fired electricity in its data centres

14 years ago

Data Centre Models In Ferment

The Green Grid's Maturity Model could be a useful tool, but let's give it time to mature, says Peter Judge

14 years ago

New Green Grid Guide Extends To Servers And Storage

In its Data Centre Maturity Model, the Green Grid adds servers and storage to its power and cooling concerns

14 years ago

The Inconvenient Truth About Carbon Intensity

Even the most efficient data centre has a carbon footprint, dependent on its source of electricity, says Peter Judge

14 years ago

Data Centre Carbon Counting – Could It Cool The Arguments?

When Facebook fell out with Greenpeace over coal-fired power, the new Green Grid measurement might have helped sort things out,…

14 years ago

Green Grid Starts To Measure Data Centre Carbon Use

Alongside PUE to measure power efficiency, the Green Grid now has CUE to measure carbon use

14 years ago

Energy Now Fastest Rising Cost For Data Centres

Energy related costs now make up 12 percent of data centre expenditure, Gartner has found, and things will get worse

14 years ago

Switch Off PCs, Say eWEEK Readers

The number one way to cut IT's carbon footprint is to switch off PCs overnight, say eWEEK readers. Our next…

14 years ago

Green Attack On Facebook: Unfair, But Could It Help?

Greenpeace's campaign unfairly targets Facebook's very efficient data centre. But, Peter Judge asks, is changing behaviour about fairness?

14 years ago

Facebook Defends ‘Green’ Data Centre

Greenpeace may not "Like" it, but the Oregon data centre is more efficient where it is, says Facebook

14 years ago

Sustainable Practices Can Lead To Business Savings

Sustainability will be 'critical' to businesses, bringing cash savings as well as carbon cuts, according to Capgemini

14 years ago

Green Data Centres: A Quest For PUE-rity

The PUE efficiency measure is barely three years old but may be obsolete, says Andrew Donoghue - but it's the…

14 years ago

Environment Agency Plants Itself In Green Data Centre

The UK Environment agency is using Capgemini's Swindon data centre, claimed to be the world's greenest with a PUE of…

14 years ago

Would You Buy A Data Centre Delivered By Truck?

Modular data centres can be delivered quickly by road just like container DCs says Akber Jaffer. But unlike their temporary…

14 years ago