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Google Asks ‘How Green Is the Internet?’

<p>With nearly 2 billion people connected to the Internet these days, there are those who question the effects that this usage has on the environment. </p>Full Article

Meeting the Green Challenge Google-Style

With energy prices going up and datacenters getting bigger, green computing is essential. Google takes its 100% renewable commitment seriously with multiple clean energy investments.Full Article

Greenpeace Names Cisco, Google ‘Cool IT’ Leaders

<span>The sixth Cool IT Leaderboard ranked 21 technology leaders </span>based on their efforts to drive transformative change in the way that energy is produced and consumed. Full Article

Taking the Polar Plunge into the Node Pole

Nature doesn’t charge for air conditioning. That’s important for big tech companies who look to save their bottom line along with the environment as they build massive data centers ...Full Article

Reining In Brown Energy Usage

When renewable energy gets into the IT power mix, it adds a new wrinkle. While data centers and facilities could simply treat that power the same as that of ...Full Article

Google’s Needham Shows It’s Easy Being Green

Rick Needham, director of energy and sustainability at Google, gave a presentation at the Cleantech Forum in San Francisco arguing that not only does the future of energy lie ...Full Article

Could the Human Brain Inspire High Efficiency Computing?

At just under 2500 Megaflops per Watt, the Appro Beacon machine at the University of Tennessee comes in at the top of the Green 500 list. Yet underlying this ...Full Article

Google Uses PUE Properly in POP Optimization

It is refreshing when Google releases a case study where the measurement of PUE is utilized in the actual manner for which it was intended. Specifically, they measured, ran ...Full Article

Interxion Uses Sea Water to Cool Stockholm Data Centers

The type of efficiency Interxion is experiencing in Stockholm is most commonly associated with facilities using air economization (free cooling) to leverage the cool environment in cool servers. But ...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