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Google's U.S. data centres earn environmental certification

20.01.2012

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

17.01.2012

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

13.01.2012

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

12.01.2012

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...

UK data centres won’t cut energy in 2012

12.01.2012

Most data centres in the UK will not be cutting their energy use in 2012. In fact, three-quarters will be using more electricity, despite pressure from energy costs and green taxes. Rising energy costs are supposed to be making data centres more energy-conscious, and energy taxes such as the CRC...

Illinois data centre rated LEED Gold

11.01.2012

The University of Illinois' National Petascale Computing Facility has been certified LEED Gold in the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design rating system, which is the recognized standard for measuring sustainability in construction.

The building,...

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