March 12th, 2013 | by Andrew
Taking a holistic, integrated approach to sustainable data center design and construction, NREL's HPC data center will be the first to achieve a Power Usage Effectiveness of 1.06 or better. It will also be the first petascale HPC to use warm-water liquid cooling, making extensive use of waste heat to warm the interior and exterior of NREL's new Energy Systems Integration Facility
May 30th, 2011 | by Zachary Shahan
I shared a video on Google's Helsinki, Finland data center that is cooled 100% with sea water last week. To follow up, here's a series of short videos from Google on data center efficiency best practices that Google unveiled last week. Interesting stuff. Check them out
May 26th, 2011 | by Zachary Shahan
This is pretty cool. You can get much of the story from the video above. But, in summary, by pumping sea water through an existing sea water tunnel (that was put in place by the paper mill that used to live there). The Hamina, Finland site was acquired in 2009 and, from the beginning, Google's team was very excited about using the unique features of the site to design a more eco-friendly data center -- that's what makes Google great (one of the things)
