Technology
4,000 Ukrainian Cows Power Country's First Biogas Plant
The 4,000 cows at the Ukrainian Milk Company Ltd. near Kiev are doing more than producing dairy products. Their dung is being used to produce energy at the country's first biogas cogeneration plant. Read More
2010 Government Virtualization Report
To understand the state of virtualization within government agencies, CDW-G surveyed more than 600 federal, state and local IT managers. Read More
Portugal's PlanIT Valley to Put Green Tech on the Map
Portugal's plans to build the world's greenest city -- and a hopeful competitor to Silicon Valley -- from the ground up may be ambitious, but they are also surprisingly credible. Read More
GE to Invest $10B More in Ecomagination R&D by 2015
General Electric is committing $10 billion to ecomagination research and development in the next five years after reaching a $5 billion investment milestone for its portfolio of environmentally sensitive products, services and technology. Read More
Obama Orders Federal Data Center Consolidation, Expects $3B in Savings
In a memorandum signed last week, the president ordered all federal agencies to halt the growth of their data centers, and to focus on consolidating and combining facilities within five years. Read More
eBay's Newest Data Center Uses Half the Energy, Aims for LEED Gold
The online retailer's 240,000 square foot building will have a PUE of 1.4, and will use 50 percent less energy than the average of all the other data centers it leases around the globe. Read More
HP Envisions Cow-Powered Data Centers
Calling the connection between manure and computing a "symbiotic relationship," a new research paper from HP Labs outlines how a mid-sized dairy farm can power a one-megawatt data center. Read More
Measuring the Green Economy
This report from the U.S. Commerce Department measures the size and economic impacts of green products and services. Read More
What Data Centers Can Teach the World about Earth Day
With the annual hype of Earth Day accelerated by the big 40th anniversary, it's high time to look at how data centers have gotten far ahead of the rest of the enterprise when it comes to going green. Read More
Inside the World's Greenest Data Center
Hewlett Packard's Wynyard data center in Stockton, U.K., has turned an old transport warehouse into a supersized, super-green computing facilty -- one the company says is the world's greenest. Read More