EPA Recruits Energy Star Participants

July 2, 2008 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Environmental watchdog group, the US Environmental Protection Agency (epa.gov) announced last week that at least 215 data centers have volunteered to supply data on their energy usage in its effort to develop an Energy Star (energystar.gov) certification for data center facilities.

The announcement was made at Andrew Fanara of the EPA’s Energy Star program at the Silicon Valley Leadership Group’s Data Center Energy Summit in Santa Clara, California.

The 215 faciltiies that have agreed to participate in the study is a significant improvement from mid-May, when a mere 54 facilities offered their data, falling short of the group’s goal of 100.

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Whitepaper: Rackspace Green Survey

In 2007 Rackspace conducted a survey to gain insight into the perceptions that their business customers have regarding environmental issues and the impact of IT on climate change. With the changes that have happened in technology and the economy, they decided to survey their customers again in June 2008 to determine if trends have changed. This information allows Rackspace to better understand their customers’ business decisions and how environmental responsibility plays into those decisions.

Take a look at the key findings in the Rackspace Green Survey Whitepaper (pdf)

Source: Rackspace.com

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Whitepaper: Qualitative Analysis of Power Distribution Configurations for Data Centers

Many different power distribution configurations exist today that can be used to power a data center.  Each of these configurations has its own advantages and disadvantages that can have a major impact on all aspects of the facility.  This paper discusses the qualitative differences between seven possible configurations that can either be found in the United States or Canada today, or could be used in the future.

Source: The Green Grid

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Whitepaper: The Green Grid Opportunity

The Green Grid examines why it is so important to define and propagate the best energy efficiency practices in datacenter operation, construction and design. In this paper, The Green Grid has identified both short-term and long-term objectives to increase the energy efficiency of datacenters and IT infrastructure equipment.

Source: The Green Grid

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NTT Data Announces Japanese Green Data Center

June 26, 2008 — (GREEN DATA CENTER INFO) — NTT Data Corp (nttdata.co.jp) announced plans of building a green data center with a DC power system, which will be available for use starting in October, reported Tech-On this week.

The Japanese company unveiled this announcement at GridWorld 2008 (idg.co.jp/expo/grid/english/), which ran June 24-25 at Tokyo International Forum.

The DC power system is a technology utilized to minimize power loss by reducing the number of times of AC-DC/DC-AC conversion. Currently, uninterruptible power supply systems (UPS) used at data centers are driven by a direct current. AC-DC and DC-AC conversions are repeated for a minimum of three times, including conversion, inside the server machine before driving the microprocessor.

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