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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 the key
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
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
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
Icelandic Data Centre Uses Modules, Not Containers
Container-based data centres are popular, but Verne Global went with bigger modules in Iceland
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 Peter Judge
Marilyn Data Centre Uses Vertical Air Cooling
Vertical air cooling improved French designers' energy efficiency - and inspired the name of their data centre
Could Servers Replace Household Boilers?
The Data Furnace is a tiny data centre that could heat your house. Peter Judge is not immediately convinced
Microsoft Proposes Servers As ‘Data Furnace’ Heaters
Small micro-data centres could help to heat homes and run cloud services, says Microsoft
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
Greenpeace Makes Peace With Data Centres
Data centre operators should be more open about their energy use, according to Greenpeace
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
Data Centre Measure Rates Transactions Per Joule
Power Assure says PAR4 measures how much work your servers do. Doesn't SPECpower already do that?
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 labels, says Peter Judge
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
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
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
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
Greenpeace Sets Deadline For Facebook To ‘Unfriend’ Coal
Greenpeace wants Facebook to pledge on Earth Day, to become coal-free by 2021
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, says Peter Judge
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
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
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 poll - your top gadget!
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?
Facebook Defends ‘Green’ Data Centre
Greenpeace may not "Like" it, but the Oregon data centre is more efficient where it is, says Facebook
Sustainable Practices Can Lead To Business Savings
Sustainability will be 'critical' to businesses, bringing cash savings as well as carbon cuts, according to Capgemini
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 best green data centre metric we have for now
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 1.08
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 counterparts, can last ten years or more and scale to hundreds of metres