Clean technology companies (also known as “cleantech”) have become such significant economic drivers in North Carolina that the industry added 8,000 full-time jobs across the state last year. In fact, the rate…
[caption id="attachment_12767" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Integrated TSO/Intel apps to search in detail for wasted energy.[/caption] TSO Logic and Intel have announced plans to integrate their datacenter…
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has combined two of the things highest on the priority list of enterprise IT organizations this year: datacenters and energy saving alternative power sources. The DOE has bui…
Studies showing the rapid consolidation of business and consumer IT into energy-efficient power centers vastly underestimate the amount of electricity used to run everything from smartphones to mainframes—and t…
How Ford’s Technical Specialists Manage a Globalized Workforce The automotive industry is in a state of rapid change. In addition to the expedient move to electrification, auto manufacturers around the world ar…
There are plenty of reasons to want to make a datacenter more energy-efficient—most of which come with dollar signs in front of them. The power cost for a mid-sized datacenter pulling 2 megawatts of electricity…
Datacenter performance-analysis software developer Romonet has launched a new version of its cloud-based suite of applications, designed to keep datacenters at peak energy- and cost-efficiency. The original ver…
[caption id="attachment_10794" align="aligncenter" width="501"] Datacenters are notoriously power hungry.[/caption] Major IT vendors have been including custom-built wind- and solar-power farms in their datacen…
Google announced a deal June 4 to buy a decade’s worth of power from an uncompleted wind farm, which could net the search-engine giant a guaranteed source of renewable energy before such sources (possibly) get…
[caption id="attachment_8705" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Can a supercomputer help the search for new energy sources?[/caption] French oil conglomerate Total has inaugurated the world’s ninth-most-powerful…
A recent study by 451 Research shows that—contrary to popular expectations—power prices in the United States are actually decreasing, with potential implications for choosing sites for next-generation data cent…
We’re all familiar with the so-called Work-Life Balance. But, this conjures up visions of see-saws that must be perfectly balanced with equal weights on both ends at all times to ensure success. I personally be…