Microsoft is attempting a unique solution to a tricky problem, as explained in a new research paper titled ‘No More Electrical Infrastructure: Towards Fuel Cell Powered Data Centers’. The idea, as Senior Research Program Manager Sean James explains, is to install fuel cells directly into the server racks, bringing “the … [continued]
According to several news items from reliable sources, Apple is teaming up with Nevada utility NV Energy to build a solar farm to support its data center in Reno, Nevada. This would be Apple’s third solar farm, following the two currently in construction next to its North Carolina data center. … [continued]
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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]
The City of Palo Alto has written a $495,970 rebate check to Hewlett-Packard (HP) for designing and constructing a new data center that is cooled mostly with fresh air. It is estimated HP will save nearly 5 million kWh per year by using this system, rather than a conventional one … [continued]
An advanced cooling technology capable of reducing the cooling costs of large data centers by one-third has been developed by researchers from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and Toshiba. The researchers are now “test-bedding a new data centre that combines Toshiba’s air cooling technology with NTU’s advanced info-communications technology (ICT),” … [continued]
Global concerns about climate change, dependence on oil imports and increasing oil prices have brought renewable energy onto the centre stage of various data centers across the world. Taking this into consideration, online giant eBay has planned to power its main data centre in Utah primarily with renewable energy. … [continued]
“No trees were killed in the sending of this message, but a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.” It’s a funny email signature, but how many inconvenienced electrons does it take to power the internet? In 2011, the digital universe, or the amount of information created and replicated, reached … [continued]
Researchers at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) have developed a device that has the potential to monitor and save the energy consumed by large data centers. Developed at the request of Credit Suisse, EPFL researchers created the Power Monitor System and Management (PMSM) to monitor and track the … [continued]
