42U Offers Data Center Energy Savings Calculator

(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Data center efficiency solutions provider 42U (www.42u.com) announced on Thursday it has launched a free, interactive Data Center Energy Savings Calculator to help data center managers quantify the energy, cost, and CO2 savings possible through efficiency efforts.

The tool uses the power usage effectiveness metric, which is developed in part by The Green Grid (www.thegreengrid.org), as the basis for its calculation. (more…)

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Energy Dept Offers Green Data Center Training

(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — The US Department of Energy announced on Tuesday it is developing through its Save Energy Now program several training certificate programs for data center end users
that will focus on improving data center energy efficiency.

The department has announced one of the first classes, which will be scheduled for October 21 in Atlanta at Georgia Tech’s Global Learning and Conference Center. (more…)

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Yahoo Reveals Data Center Efficiency Details

(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Among other major data center builders, Google (www.google.com) and Microsoft (www.microsoft.com), that have been known to maintain secrecy over their data center efficiency, the most secretive of them all, Yahoo (www.yahoo.com), has revealed a number of innovations in cooling design and energy efficiency ratings, and they fall in the same ball park as its rivals, according to a Data Center Knowledge report. (more…)

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EvoSwitch Hosts the Wikimedia Foundation

(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Non-profit organization the Wikimedia Foundation (www.wikimedia.org), the operator of Wikipedia (www.wikipedia.com), announced on Monday it has signed an agreement with Dutch data center operator EvoSwitch (www.evoswitch.com) where Wikimedia will use the Amsterdam site as its HUB for Europe.

As part of the agreement, EvoSwitch will provide over $421,000 of in-kind support for Wikimedia in the form of bandwidth and hosting services. (more…)

Tags: data center operator, energy efficiency, Europe, evoswitch, Wikimedia Foundation

GreenTech Adds Data Center Cooling Designs

(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Data center cooling solutions provider Core4 Systems (www.core4sys.com) announced on Monday it has introduced its new computer room air-conditioning, air-handling units and chiller systems.

Core4’s new data center cooling systems come at a critical time, as data center energy consumption is projected to nearly double to 120 billion KWh by 2011, according to the Environmental Protection Agency (www.epa.gov). (more…)

Tags: Core4, data center design, energy efficiency, green computing, new products

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