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Making Datacenters Application Aware

To save on escalating datacenter costs, companies are taking different approaches to datacenter design. Some open the doors and let the cold air chill the servers, whole others use ...Full Article

NREL’s Skynet Stays Cool with RackCDU

The U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is relocating its Skynet HPC cluster to a new datacenter at the Energy Systems Integration Facility (ESIF) in Golden, ...Full Article

Using Software to Make Datacenters Greener

It’s no secret that supercomputers require a lot of energy to run. Organizations have tried using different cooling methods to keep the cost of running a datacenter down, while ...Full Article

Heat-Trapping and NREL’s Green Datacenter Leadership Effort

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and their new $10 million HPC facility seeks to set the standard on green computing worldwide. The datacenter is part of the lab's ...Full Article

Google Adapts Its Ten Rules to Datacenter Building

Being a tech giant means getting in front of new technologies that promote energy efficiency and a lot of that emphasis has lately fallen on the designing and building ...Full Article

In Defense of ICT’s Impact on Climate Change

From the New York Times article "Power, Pollution and the Internet" to Greenpeace's criticisms of the heavy use of carbon-emitting energy sources by Amazon and other cloud computing datacenters, ...Full Article

What Does It Really Mean To Be Green?

Author Brian Proffitt criticizes "greenwashing" in IT industry. Does lower energy consumption constitute green computing? What about the concepts of "sustainable" and zero carbon?Full Article

Greenpeace Activists Troll Amazon In Attempt to Make AWS Cleaner

<p><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;">The environmental organization creates “green amazon web services” website promising to make AWS the greenest in the world. The site got a lot of attention at ...Full Article

Volkswagen AG Computing Center Wins Energy Efficiency Award

Site hosting IT apps for 51,000 Audi employees gets recognition for energy efficiency from TUV Rheinland inspection authority for energy efficiency. It reduces CO2 emissions by 9,000 metric tons annually ...Full Article

Is EBay’s Use of Fuel Cells the Start Of a New Era?

EBay's Quicksilver data center in Utah uses fuel cells from Bloom Energy as the main powersouce, with the grid as backup. Why? Just because it likes clean energy, and ...Full Article