Technology
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
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
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
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