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Toward the Energy-Efficient Data Center
Not until recently have the industry's concerns about data center power consumption crystallized. Chip manufacturers such as Intel and AMD have ratcheted up the electrical efficiency of their microprocessors — a metric that no one cared about until the past few years. And IBM and HP have invested in better ways to manage cooling systems. By Brian Bergstein (Data Storage Today) Read more...
There are simple steps you can take today to green your data center. Here are the EPA's latest recommendations, plus a slide deck from the editors at CIOInsight.
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Environmental Mandates on the IT Horizon
The European Union is implementing sweeping environmental regulations that will affect hardware manufacturers as well as IT departments. Here's what's coming down the pike. (ComputerWorld) Read more...
New Metric May Point Users Toward More Energy-Efficient Servers
By year's end, that may change. Standard Performance Evaluation Corp. (SPEC), a nonprofit organization in Warrenton, Va., is expected to publish late this year a power utilization benchmark that's designed to enable IT managers to compare the energy efficiency of servers from vendor to vendor. (ComputerWorld) Read more...
"No Cooling Necessary" Data Centers Coming?
Here's a concept: data centers that are so completely self-contained that no one has to worry about power intake or cooling system failures. IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, and undoubtedly other companies are already doing research and testing in this area and, in fact, are beginning to come out with no-cooling-necessary components, if not full data centers, right now. (eWeek) Read more...
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Green Grid Lobbies for LEED Data Center Certification
While some data centers have already certified under the U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED rating system for commercial interiors, the requirements of IT departments have posed such sustainable design challenges that the USGBC has so far opted not to address data center facilities. The Green Grid, a nonprofit consortium of technology companies, is trying to change that. (Server Specs) Read more...
Green Grid Lays Out Energy Efficiency Road Map
The Green Grid consortium outlined its 2007 deliverables and technology roadmap. But first the group needs to nail down metrics on data center energy efficiency. (ZDNet) Read more...
Build Your Data Center Here: The Most Energy-Efficient Locations
It's almost a no-brainer that bucolic Quincy, Wash., would be a more environmentally friendly site for data centers than, say, New York is. But according to a new study, Chicago beats all 20 of the other locations that were looked at — even Quincy — in terms of a data center's carbon output. (ComputerWorld) Read more...
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