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EBay develops 'miles per gallon' metric for data centres
There's a maxim in the data centre business that you can't manage what you can't measure, and eBay has come up with the mother of all measurement systems for calculating data centre efficiency. The online auction giant has devised a methodology that looks at the cost of its IT operations in...
Top tech companies plug into renewable power
Microsoft is building a data centre next to a Wyoming landfill in order to use its methane gas to power the facility. Apple now uses a massive 100-acre solar energy farm to power its Maiden, N.C. data centre. And Google has placed data centres in Oklahoma and Iowa so they can plug into wind...
Telus’s new C$750-million development will tap waste heat from its nearby data centre
Computer data centres have become notorious 21st-century symbols of energy waste, but Telus is aiming to turn its downtown Vancouver facility into an energy source for new development. Telus plans to tap waste heat generated from a data centre in...
Iceotope plumbs in immersively cooled servers for first customer
Iceotope's immersively cooled server racks are now in production, and the company has named its first customer. The University of Leeds has been using an Iceotope server since December to run computational fluid dynamics models -- and to warm the radiators...
European Commission funded project CoolEmAll to develop data centre toolkit
Project CoolEmAll, the European Commission-funded green IT project that aims to provide tools and blueprints that can minimise the energy usage and carbon emissions of datacentres, is developing the first prototype of the simulation, visualisation and decision-support (SVD) toolkit.
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Powering up as UK Government issues warnings on power capacity
Last week the Chief Executive of OFGEM - the UK Government Energy Body - Alistair Buchanan, expressed his concerns that UK consumers face higher energy bills as the UK becomes more reliant on energy imports as a result of falls in the UK's power production capacity.
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