Technology
Schneider Electric: Transitioning from Transistors to Smart Grids
The 170-year-old company is in the midst of a rejuvenation, throwing its tools and experience behind a holistic energy management platform aimed at reducing energy use across the enterprise. Read More
IBM's New Data Center Brings Home the Gold
IBM chose an existing building to house what would become the company's most technologically advanced green data center. Re-use of the building, along with a slew of energy- and water-saving measures, helped land the data center a LEED Gold certification. Read More
Yahoo Spreads its Wings with 'Chicken Coop' Data Center
The company's next-generation facility is modeled after a chicken coop design to maximize its ability to use free outside-air cooling. Read More
Super-Light, 100 MPG Car Takes $5M X Prize
The biggest winner in the $10-million Automotive X PRIZE competition is not an electric car, but a car that weighs less than 1,000 pounds and is powered by an internal combustion engine. Read More
GM's $5M Jumpstart for Bright Automotive
Bright Automotive, spun off from Rocky Mountain Institute in 2008, now has bragging rights as the first investment of GM Ventures, LLC. The $5 million investment by the auto giant couldn’t have come at a better time, providing a solid shot in the arm to drive the company’s 100-mpg plug-in hybrid electric fleet vehicle, the IDEA, into mass production. Read More
A Holistic Approach to Energy Efficiency in Datacenters
This white paper from Microsoft lays out some unconventional steps companies can take to make their data centers more efficient and greener. Read More
The Green Transition Scoreboard
Where did the more than $1.6 trillion in investments since 2007 in clean technologies and the green economy go? Read More
HP's Flexible 'Butterfly' Data Center Prefabbed to Save Costs
The company's new modular facility is targeted at companies' rapidly growing data storage and management needs, and is designed to cut energy and cooling costs significantly. Read More
Five Benefits of Data Center Energy Management
The amount of money wasted each year on idling servers equals the cost of the Apollo space program. But a number of simple strategies can help get your server load under control and start your company saving energy and money. Read More
NetApp Scores First-Ever Energy Star Label for Data Centers
One month after the new green data center certification opened for business, the company has become the first to earn the label for its RTP data center, with a score of 99 out of a possible 100. Read More