Tag Archives: Data-center
Newer posts →Cow manure to power up HP data center
May 20, 2010HP has never really thought of cow manure and their data centers at the same time before. The guys there came up with now to combine manure and the heat produced by data centers to create an economically and environmentally … Continue reading3
Posted in Other Stuff | Tagged Data-center, HP | Leave a commentHelsinki residents to receive warmth from data center below
March 17, 2010The city of Helsinki will now boast an advanced heating system to keep its homes and businesses chill free. So where does all this heat come from? Computers! An underground data center in the city will have its channel the … Continue reading3
Posted in Other Stuff | Tagged Data-center, Helsinki | Leave a commentRecycled heat from data center in Helsinki will help generate energy
December 22, 2009For the people of Helsinki, surfing the Internet will help heat water in their homes. This may sound somewhat bizarre at first, but according to Finnish utility company Helsingin Energia, heat from servers will be recycled and will be used … Continue reading3
Posted in Recycle | Tagged Data-center, Helsinki | Leave a commentUK Plans to Run Largest Data Centre on Renewable Energy
November 28, 2009UK’s largest data centre will be coming up in Dumfries and Galloway and according to the plans announced renewable energy sources will power the new facility. Once again integrated alternative energy plans are being mulled which include localized gas production … Continue reading3
Posted in Alternative Energy | Tagged "carbon foot print", "heat energy", "integrated alternative energy", "IT equipment", "localised gas prodcution", "RENEWABLE ENERGY", Data-center, Green, infrastructure, Recycle, UK | Leave a commentIBM’s Green Innovation Data Center
September 22, 2009IBM has been keeping busy in introducing green initiatives in the recent past. They had introduced the Strategic Carbon Management program to help reduce up to 50 per cent of CO2 emissions. The company has also been working on its … Continue reading3
Posted in Gadgets and Tech | Tagged Data-center, IBM | Leave a commentGermany gets the world’s first platinum rated data centre
July 29, 2009Germany is not behind the rest of the world with regard to eco-friendliness. Citi’s new Data Canter in Frankfurt has been awarded the first LEED accreditation ever in Germany and the first ever for a data center building. We all … Continue reading3
Posted in Architecture | Tagged Data-center, Germany, Platinum | Leave a commentFresh air helps to keep Google’s data center in Belgium cool
July 16, 2009Everything green about Google gets a place here on Greenlaunches. Be it about Google search’s misinterpreted carbon footprint or the PowerMeter or the latest news about its chiller-less data center in Belgium. Used to refrigerate water in data center cooling … Continue reading3
Posted in Alternative Energy | Tagged Data-center, Google | Leave a commentNew Yahoo data center goes green and cools with outside air
July 1, 2009Yahoo’s plans for a new redesigning of its data center will help the company achieve carbon neutral status without resorting to purchasing carbon offsets. The forthcoming data center lets outside air cool the servers all the time. This idea is … Continue reading3
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