Tag Archives: Data-center
← Older postsHP’s EcoPOD, the world’s most efficient data center made from recycled shipping containers!
September 16, 2011Data-centers are energy suckers, electricity-dipsomaniacs and are a serious strain on national grids. Ideally, these take about $15 million a year to operate on average and are more than often under-utilized and tend to drink an equal amount of funds … Continue reading3
Posted in Awareness and Hype | Tagged Data-center, HP, World's_Most_Efficient | Leave a commentGoogle uses sea water to cool down Finnish data center
May 25, 2011A few years ago, Google pulled out a fat wad of cash to purchase a Finnish paper mill, which now, plays home to a state-of-the-art data center. What makes this one different is the way it keeps cool and calm. … Continue reading3
Posted in Awareness and Hype | Tagged Data-center, Google | Leave a commentData centers go greener by the day, thriving on renewable energy instead
May 2, 2011Data centers are known energy hogs. These plug into the grid and suck in a load of energy, to keep the internet up and running. Lately however, we’ve seen a rise in green-energy powered data centers that power up using … Continue reading3
Posted in Awareness and Hype | Tagged Data-center, Renewable_energy | Leave a commentFacebook to go green with energy-efficient data centre
April 8, 2011Up ahead, logging on to your Facebook page and pouring out your heart on your “wall” won’t be so much of a polluting act, with Facebook drawing plans to open up an energy-efficient data centre. This one built in collaboration … Continue reading3
Posted in Gadgets and Tech | Tagged Data-center, Energy_Effiicient, Facebook | Leave a commentSystem to help reduce energy consumption at data centers developed by Power Assure
September 21, 2010Power Assure is here to assure energy-efficiency at data centers, places where energy is wasted on a scale large enough to make our eyes pop out in shock. Anyways, the Santa Clara, California based company has just pulled the veil … Continue reading3
Posted in Gadgets and Tech | Tagged Data-center, Energy_consumption | Leave a commentYahoo proudly unveils energy-efficient data center in New York
September 21, 2010A while ago, we heard of Yahoo’s plans to open up a few energy-efficient and green data centers. Well things sure have seemed to have gone as planned for the yodelers this time, as the company finally adding the finishing … Continue reading3
Posted in Architecture | Tagged Data-center, New_York, Yahoo | Leave a commentGreenpeace slams Facebook for not being green enough
August 10, 2010Writing on a wall and putting up pictures there hasn’t been so much fun, until Facebook, the good old social networking site that has turned out to be the newest addiction of the 21st century. Well, all said and done, … Continue reading3
Posted in Awareness and Hype | Tagged Data-center, Facebook, Greenpeace | Leave a commentRelief ark on the moon could help post-apocalypse earthlings survive
July 16, 2010Remember Noah’s Ark during the great flood that drowned the earth of its sin? Well, the European Space Agency is planning an ark of its own, just incase doomsday does arrive, and we need to move out and escape to … Continue reading3
Posted in Other Stuff | Tagged Data-center, doomsday, Moon | Leave a commentCultofMac.com goes solar powered, turning to AISO.net’s green data center
June 21, 2010The CultofMac.com no longer depends on the energy drained grid to power it up. It’s now using the help of the sun to do so instead. The website has turned 100% solar powered, using a greener and more environment-loving host, … Continue reading3
Posted in Alternative Energy | Tagged Data-center, Solar_Power | Leave a commentDespite efforts globally, data centers still consuming an increasing amount of power
May 25, 2010No matter how hard they try, data centers just can help being power hungry! And that’s what everyone realized from the Uptime Symposium 2010 recently held in New York. Virtualization and power management techniques have been thought of and used … Continue reading3
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