The Google Energy Efficient Data Center Summit in April brought together many of the industry’s thought leaders on best practices for a question-and-answer session featuring of The Uptime Institute, James Hamilton of Amazon Web Services, Olivier Sanche of eBay and Bill Tschudi of Lawrence Berkeley National Labs. The panel is moderated by Luiz Barroso, a [...]

Google’s patented “data center in a box” appears to be among the innovations helping it achieve exceptional energy efficiency ratings. The news is the latest sign of containers’ potential to deliver higher density and better energy efficiency than traditional raised floor data centers. Google said Oct. 2 that its six company-built facilities have an average [...]