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

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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

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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