one of the things I have found is the name “data center” is not an accurate description to the layman of what data centers do. Are data centers the “center of data”?  In the past there was one corporate building that was the place where data was housed for the corporation. The standard for Fortune [...]

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 [...]

Raising the temperature in the data center can save big money on power costs. But nudge the thermostat too high, and the energy savings can evaporate in a flurry of fan activity. That was the takeaway from several presentations at last week’s Data Center Energy Efficiency Summit (DCEE) in Sunnyvale, Calif. The case studies documented [...]

Data center users have lots of design choices. Turn-key space or powered shell? Raised floor or slab? Chilled water or air-side economization? Most users decide on a set of desired design characteristics and search for data centers or providers that can meet all their criteria. In its new Chicago data center project, developer Ascent Corp. [...]