Toyota Aims To Work Its Fuel Cell Magic With Iconic US Firm Kohler
Toyota and Kohler have developed a new commercial scale fuel cell system aimed at pushing diesel generators out of the market for backup power while offering new grid services, too.
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NREL Joins $40 Million Effort To Advance Data Center Cooling Efficiency
ARPA-E Program Creates More Energy-Efficient Data Centers, Reducing Carbon Emissions and Mitigating Climate Change The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) joined a $40 million program led by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) to radically rethink how components within data centers are cooled. Among the 15 … [continued]
Data Center Firm Teraco Plans To Build 200 MW Of Solar PV To Power Its…
Teraco is Africa’s leading carrier-neutral colocation provider. Teraco says it is the first provider of highly resilient, vendor-neutral data environments in sub-Saharan Africa. Teraco says its world-class data center infrastructure and network-dense ecosystems form a vital part of the African internet’s backbone and is essential to the modern enterprise’s digital … [continued]
Waste Heat From Data Centers Can Bolster District Heat Systems
Globally, data centers are estimated to account for 1 to 2% of electricity usage. The percentage is higher in Europe, where data centers there consumed 104 TWh of electricity in 2020 — about 3% of all the electricity consumed within the EU. Those data centers create a lot of waste … [continued]
Underwater Data Centers Could Be A Great Way To Lower Environmental Impacts
A few weeks ago, I came across an interesting company that offers a product that sounds like a bad idea on the surface. Subsea Cloud offers data center services, but with an interesting twist: the data center lives under the waves. For most people, the closest water comes to computers … [continued]
Decarbonizing Data Centers — It’s Fun!
Decarbonizing data centers is a topic we’ve covered for many years. Just doing a quick search, I found several articles I wrote about data center decarbonization efforts back in 2011, more than a decade ago. However, discussion of the topic is normally kept quite simple, with the focus being on … [continued]
CleanTechnica’s Recent Webinar: Data Center Decarbonization (Video Included)
What is the future of data center decarbonization and sustainability at large in major companies? Recently CleanTechnica’s CEO, Zachary Shahan, hosted a chat with a panel of thought leaders from Hitachi and Intel to discuss how sustainability will drive industry and business in the next decade. Listen in as we … [continued]
Live Webinar: Why Sustainability Will Be the Driving Force Behind This Decade’s Biggest Innovations
Join us next week for a live webinar! How much do you know about data center decarbonization? How about sustainability at large in major companies? On March 29th, CleanTechnica’s CEO, Zachary Shahan, will be hosting a live webinar with a panel of thought leaders from big shots (panelists listed below) … [continued]
In Virtual Tour, Department of Energy Recognizes Iron Mountain Data Centers for Energy Efficiency Leadership…
Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recognized Iron Mountain Data Centers for its commitment to energy efficiency through DOE’s Better Buildings Challenge. Since joining the program in 2016, Iron Mountain met its first energy-savings goal of 20% and has now set a new goal of improving data center power usage efficiency … [continued]
Energy Efficiency Whack-A-Mole Pursues Data Centers To The Edge
New Swiss consortium has the formula for motivating energy efficiency in data centers, but challenge of edge computing looms ahead.
