Yahoo Data Center Wins Efficiency Award
Feb. 2, 2015: Yahoo Wins Data Center Energy Efficiency Award with Cooling Optimization ACHR News, February 2, 2015 Yahoo was named as winner of the 2014 Data Center Dynamics North …
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Amazon Wind Farm to be Built in Indiana
Amazon plans wind farm to power its data centers The Seattle Times, January 20. 2015 Long criticized by some environmentalists for indifference to clean energy, Amazon.com took a big step …
Microsoft to Build First Zero-carbon, Waste-to-energy Data Center in the U.S.
Microsoft’s data center in Cheyenne, Wyoming uses biogas produced at the nearby Dry Creek facility, which is a byproduct of municipal wastewater treatment. Anaerobic bacteria produce the biogas while stabilizing solids removed from wastewater.
Data Center Heat Recovery Used as Office Heating System in Downtown Seattle
In downtown Seattle, Amazon is proposing a significant energy efficiency project for their new three-building campus. Heat recovery from the Clise Properties data center will be used for space heating in the new Amazon campus.
Google Data Center Improves Energy Efficiency
Less than a year after Google fired up its data centre in Singapore, the search giant is pushing the facility to attain greater energy efficiency through “machine learning”, Google’s vice-president for the data centre, Mr Joe Kava, said in an interview with TODAY last week.
Emerson Network Power’s New Data Center Cooling Technology
Emerson Network Power is building a research and development center on the University of Dayton campus in Ohio where it will have a dedicated facility for developing new data center cooling technology.
How Data Center Temperatures Can Waste Your Company’s Energy and Money
As engineers work to lessen the massive energy demands of data centers — which, the EPA estimates, already gobble up a whopping 3% of all electricity consumed in the U.S. — these facilities are getting warmer. This allows data center operators to save big on cooling costs and energy demands.
Artificial Intelligence Used to Improve Google’s Data Center Cooling Efficiency
Google says that recently it’s been using machine learning — developed by data center engineer Jim Gao (his Googler nickname is “Boy Genius”)