News - Green
UK business ‘green’ spending set to reach £6.8 billion by 2015, says Verdantix
Spending by large UK firms on energy, environmental and sustainability initiatives is set to grow 16% a year to reach £6.8 billion by 2015, say independent analysts Verdantix. Even this year, Verdantix predicts that overall spending will increase 12% – twenty times faster than the growth...
Niobara Energy Park Colorado proposes vast datacenter complex with free outdoor air cooling efficiency
Niobrara Energy Park, located in Weld County, Colorado, is a renewable energy datacenter project that will combine clean fossil fuels, alternative energy, Smart Grid, energy storage, renewable energy research, DC power and cloud computing data centers.
“Niobrara Energy Park is the largest...
Google's U.S. data centres earn environmental certification
Google has received ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001 environmental and workplace safety certifications for all of its U.S. data centres, the company has announced.
Joe Kava, Google's senior director of data centre construction and operations...
Tieto's Finnish data centre ranked among the most energy efficient data centres in the world
Wired magazine has ranked Tieto's new data centre in Espoo, Finland, among the nine most energy efficient data centres in the world.. The acknowledgement came close on the heels of the international Green Enterprise IT Award granted by US Uptime Institute in May 2011. The new data centre has...
Interxion passes 50% milestone for provision of data centre power from renewable energy sources
Interxion, a leading European provider of carrier-neutral colocation data centre services, has announced that, as of this month, over half of the power it provides for customers in its data centres is from solar, wind, geothermic, tidal or hydro energy...
AIMES Grid Services secures data centre expansion finance
AIMES Grid Services, the Liverpool based technology company, has secured investment of £1.2 million with which it intends to build the first phase of a new a data centre.
The company – a renowned cloud computing specialist - is set to build...
