Data

This guide from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory aims to make it easier for data center owners and operators to get the most compute power per watt. Read More

Cloud computing is touted as the green future of computing, but its energy footprint is much bigger than you'd expect. Read More

Dr. Bob Sullivan, the pioneer of hot-aisle and cold-aisle data center cooling, talks about how a simple invention for using outside air in HVAC systems can turn conventional cooling on its ear. Read More

Schneider Electric has acquired Lee Technologies of Fairfax, Va., in a move that is expected to buttress Schneider's formidable business in data centers by bringing in a firm that specializes in providing services for the facilities. Read More

The U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General plans to consolidate four of its data centers into a single, energy-efficient facility that will be built in 10 months. Read More

At its annual Technical Forum, the industry sustainability group continued to expand on its widely adopted Power Usage Effectiveness formula to include water efficiency, reuse of energy within facilities, and others. Read More

This online resource from Teladata and the IFMA Foundation offers an easy-to-use guide for greening data centers, from making the business case for energy efficiency upgrades to carrying out the projects. Read More

In the past five years, the facility outside Pittsburgh has saved 80 million kilowatts of energy use, trimming $7.5 million from the bank's energy bills, and is in the process of getting LEED certification as well. Read More

The tech industry association is expanding on its ubiquitous PUE formula to help data center owners and operators get a fuller picture of their environmental impacts by measuring the carbon outputs and water use of data centers. Read More

Although improving energy efficiency can be as simple as gathering low-hanging fruit, smart companies will take efficiency projects far beyond the usual suspects. Read More