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Del Birmingham

Hulu Migrates Data Centers To 100% Renewable Energy Facility - 1 views

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    Hulu is in the process of migrating its data centers to a 100% renewable energy facility in Las Vegas operated by multi-tenant data center provider Switch. The video-on-demand company says the move will eliminate 265,000 carbon tons of emissions from the environment while powering millions of stable and secure streams a week.
Del Birmingham

DeepMind AI slashes cooling costs at Google's data centers - 0 views

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    Deep learning AI has been put to work in intelligent drones, sequencing genomes, learning the tactics of the ancient Chinese board game Go, and even keeping cats off the lawn. Now, Google has set its DeepMind system loose on its massive data centers, and drastically cut the cost of cooling these facilities in the process.
Adriana Trujillo

Data Center Uses Reclaimed Water · Environmental Management & Energy News · E... - 0 views

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    DuPont Fabros Technology's Ashburn Corporate Campus (ACC) now uses reclaimed water for the four data centers with evaporative cooling plants.
Adriana Trujillo

GM Chooses Flywheel UPS for Detroit Data Center | Energy Manager Today - 0 views

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    General Motors' enterprise data center in Detroit cut energy consumption 70% by installing a flywheel for battery-free backup power and implementing in-row cooling techniques. The facility also achieved LEED Gold certification.
Adriana Trujillo

Building a better data center, piece by piece | GreenBiz.com - 0 views

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    While modular data centers design aren't yet commonplace, they've captured the attention of facilities and IT managers seeking to squeeze even more energy efficiency out of mission-critical IT infrastructure.
Adriana Trujillo

REI Saves 93% on Data Center Energy with Evaporative Cooling · Environmental ... - 0 views

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    Outdoor retailer REI retrofitted its Seattle data center, resulting in a 93 percent reduction in the cooling energy used
Adriana Trujillo

Amazon Invests in Wind Energy for East Coast Data Center | Data Center Knowledge - 1 views

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    Amazon Web Services plans a wind farm in North Carolina that will help power Amazon data centers. The wind farm is expected to generate 670,000 megawatt-hours per year after it comes online at the end of 2016. Amazon's goal is to eventually power its operations using 100% renewable energy
Adriana Trujillo

Amazon moves on renewables - after a push from Greenpeace | GreenBiz - 0 views

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    Just as it was being called out for using the dirtiest mix of energy among Internet giants, Amazon Web Services  announced this week a deal to build an 80-megawatt solar farm to power its east coast data centers. It will invest $150 million towards construction of a solar farm in Virginia where the majority of its data centers exist - and where the incumbent utility Dominion Virginia relies on fossil fuels for all but 2 percent of its generation. 
Adriana Trujillo

Apple Building Another 100% Renewable-Powered Data Center - Energy Manager Today - 0 views

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    Apple announced plans to build a new $921 million data center in Denmark that runs on 100% renewable energy.
Adriana Trujillo

Equinix Press Release - 1 views

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    Equinix announced plans to install on-site fuel cells, with a total capacity of more than 37MW, at 12 of its data centers across the United States, marking what the company claims is the largest deployment of fuel cells in the colocation data center industry to date. The fuel cells are projected to avoid 660,000 tons of carbon emissions and save 87 billion gallons of water over the course of 15 years.
Adriana Trujillo

Massive wind farm will power Facebook's $1 billion data center campus in Fort Worth - D... - 0 views

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    Facebook plans to build a billion-dollar data center near Fort Worth, Texas, and will draw the electricity needed to run the facility from a 200-megawatt wind farm being built nearby. 
Adriana Trujillo

Disney Invests $6 Million in EdgeCast CDN | Data Center Knowledge - 1 views

  • alt Disney’s venture arm, Steamboat Ventures, has invested $6 million in content delivery network startup EdgeCast, one of the new entrants in the growing CDN market.
  • In September EdgeCast leased data center space in Atlanta, Dallas and Seattle facilities operated by Switch and Data (SDXC).
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    Article from 2007 on Disney's Steamboat Ventures investing in a startup called EdgeCast which leased a facility in Seattle operated by Switch and Data (SDXC).
Adriana Trujillo

Apple, Facebook, Google score in Greenpeace data center ratings | GreenBiz.com - 0 views

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    Some of the Internet's biggest names are making impressive strides to reduce the carbon footprint of the cloud, says Greenpeace. Yet as the world's appetite for data expands, Twitter and Amazon Web Services are bringing up the rear.
Adriana Trujillo

Report: 91% of Top Firms View Climate Shocks as Business Risk | Sustainable Brands - 0 views

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    Ninety-one percent of companies in the S&P Global 100 Index see extreme weather and climate change impacts as current or future risks to their business, but many struggle to translate long-term, global climate data into short-term and local risks, according to a new report by the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions. Despite growing access to climate-related data and tools, companies say they need "actionable science" that helps them understand locally-specific risks or risk scenarios.
Adriana Trujillo

NV Energy Announces Solar Agreement with Apple - 0 views

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    Apple has reached an agreement with Nevada utility NV Power to build 200 MW of new solar power capacity in Nevada by 2019, supporting Apple's renewable energy needs for its Reno data center.
Adriana Trujillo

REI hits the roof to put a ceiling on data center cooling | GreenBiz.com - 0 views

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    The amount of energy the outdoor gear store saves through 'free cooling' is enough to power six stores for up to a year
Adriana Trujillo

How web giants are making datacentres lean and green - 0 views

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    Facebook and eBay are among companies spending to make their data centers more eco-friendly and energy efficient. New software tools helped Facebook reduce energy use at one server farm by 38%, yielding cost reductions of about 24%.
Adriana Trujillo

How HP is taking its Texas data centers 100% renewable | GreenBiz - 1 views

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    Hewlett-Packard is the latest in a slew of tech companies to bet big on renewable energy - a long-term play still fraught with short term complications.
Adriana Trujillo

SAP To Go Carbon Neutral by 2025 | SAP News Center - 1 views

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    SAP has committed to achieving carbon neutrality in its operations by 2025. The company is currently purchasing renewable energy certificates to cover 100% of the electricity used in its data centers.
Adriana Trujillo

REI hits the roof to put a ceiling on data center cooling | GreenBiz.com - 0 views

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    Outdoor retailer REI is saving 1.8 million KW-h per year after installing energy-efficient cooling systems at its Seattle datacenter. The project reduced energy consumption tied to cooling by 93% and had a payback period of less than 1 year.
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