REI Datacenter-Cooling Upgrade Pays for Itself in a Year Kevin Fogarty, October 4, 2013 Replacing box A/C with an evaporative system and in-row units cut cooling costs more than 90 percent at enviro-friendly $2B retailer REI. …
Intel Console to Get Better View of Which Apps Waste Energy Kevin Fogarty, September 30, 2013 Integration with detailed power-use data from TSO Logic may give Intel’s Data Center Manager enough data to allow performance-tuning by app or workload. …
Energy Dept. Datacenter Investigates Fuel Cells, Low-PUE Design Kevin Fogarty, September 17, 2013 The Dept. of Energy built an HPC facility to study alternative fuels, while cramming in as many energy-saving design tweaks as it could. …
Facebook Saves Datacenter Costs with Frigid Arctic Wind Kevin Fogarty, June 13, 2013 Power-efficient datacenter design takes advantage of Sweden’s natural cooling. …
Big Getting Bigger, Uptime Data Center Survey Finds Mark Hachman, April 25, 2013 Preliminary data shows spending increases at the largest data centers. …
Facebook Provides Near-Real-Time PUE Data for Its Data Centers Mark Hachman, April 18, 2013 Want to know how efficiently Facebook is consuming water and power? You can check for yourself now. …
Green Grid Publishes Recycling Metric Mark Hachman, March 6, 2013 Concerned that manufacturers may trash servers and other equipment at the end of their useful life, the Green Grid develops a reuse and recycling metric. …
How eBay Created Its Own Transaction Metric for Data Centers Mark Hachman, March 6, 2013 The auction giant tried to put a real business cost on the wastefulness of data centers, widening the discussion beyond just power. …
Microsoft Nears $1 Billion in Virginia Data-Center Investment Mark Hachman, January 31, 2013 The new facilities will rely on modularized designs to help power Microsoft’s cloud services. …
New Data Center Metrics for the Green Grid Mark Hachman, November 19, 2012 GEC, ERF, and CUE will complement PUE as new metrics for measuring data-center efficiency. …
