A lot of snickering has been going around the Internets for the last few days over a new National Security Agency computing center under construction at Fort Meade, Maryland, which has just inked a deal to use treated wastewater from a nearby treatment plant as a coolant. Yeah, that’s your … [continued]
Editor’s note: This is a good way for anyone with a website (who doesn’t have one these days?) to green her or his business. It’s something I’ve incorporated on my own sites, and something we are pursuing here at Important Media. This post was actually financially supported by a sponsor, but … [continued]
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.
Google this week announced its purchase of 48 megawatts of renewable wind power to provide electricity for its data center located in Oklahoma, USA. That’s a very large amount of electricity, enough to power a small city. The recent announcement shows that with a forward-thinking approach, large companies can … [continued]
News has slowly been leaking out about renewable energy plans for Apple’s data center in Maiden, North Carolina, and now the whole shebang is up on the Apple website. Apple has confirmed that the gigantic facility will run entirely on renewable energy. When running at full capacity the data … [continued]
Bill Gates has started to notice that the climate is a potential problem.”We need energy miracles” he said at TED. “The microprocessor and internet are miracles. This is a case where we have to drive and get the miracle in a short timeline.” It’s always encouraging when someone with the … [continued]
Data centers use a massive amount of energy. In response to demands for a greener internet, a growing number of data centers are going underground, making them more energy efficient.. not to mention nuke-proof. Assuming a continuous energy supply, “data bunkers” like these will keep the internet running no … [continued]
Along with earlier wrap-ups of cleantech politics news and solar and wind energy news, here’s a wrap-up of some other cleantech news of the past week or so. Cleantech a Major Reason Why Siemens is Making So Much Money Siemens has beating analysts’ projections of how much money they are … [continued]
