At Tuesday’s Green:Net 09 conference, Jonathan Koomey of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Stanford University shared his research on the amount of electricity used by data centers. K. In this talk, Jonathan makes a key point that often gets lost in discussions of IT energy efficiency. “The biggest environmental story is not the actual electricity [...]

The creators of Wikipedia will add about 50 servers in a new European traffic hub in a “green” data center in Amsterdam, the company said today. The Wikimedia Foundation has signed a contract with EvoSwitch, which will donate more than 300,000 euros (about $415,000) of in-kind support in bandwidth and hosting services. The Wikipedia site [...]