Today's Feature
Amazon Designs New Green Digs
Amazon's Seattle headquarters are about to get a lot greener. New drawings released by the e-retailer feature a high-concept greenhouse design as the centerpiece of a three-block development project in the Denny Triangle area of downtown Seattle. Read More...
- Toward an Energy-Efficient, High-Performance Datacenter
- Telcos to Slash Energy Use 90 Percent by 2020
- A Datacenter Without Walls
In the News
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Swedish Datacenter Saves Big with Seawater
Datacenter operator Interxion uses seawater to cool its Stockholm facilities, saving over a million dollars in energy costs each year. Read more...
Energy-efficient Many-core Is the PRiME Objective
Electronic engineers and computer scientists in the UK are working to develop more reliable and energy-efficient many-core embedded systems as part of a new five-year program, called PriME. Read more...
CO2 Levels Hit New High
Climate scientists reported that the levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide surpassed 400 parts per million (ppm) for the first time in over a million years. Read more...
Citizen Scientists to Help Map Global CO2 Emissions
Climate science researchers from Arizona State University are launching an innovative online "game" to better understand the global carbon cycle. Read more...
Open Compute Project Tackles the Network
Open Compute Project president says something was missing, and that something was the connecting layer. Read more...
Is a Zero-Watt Solution Worth the Wait?
Today's businesses move at a rapid pace. Datacenters need to keep up with that pace. However, a datacenter will use up energy to instantaneously access a file. SGI proposes that waiting a few seconds can save thousands of watts of power. Read more...
Earth Day Special: Making Datacenters Greener
Datacenters consume 94.8 billion pounds of CO2 every year. Half of a datacenter's power goes to cooling. To celebrate Earth Day, Fusion-io created an infographic to share ways datacenter energy consumption can be reduced through the use of flash instead of disk.Read more...
Earth Day Special: 10 Reasons Why You'll be Buried Alive
The United States has more trash than any other country in the world, throwing away over 500 billion pounds of garbage every year. As an Earth Day special for Green Computing Report, the infographic below details how Americans distribute their trash.Read more...
Using Software to Make Datacenters Greener
It’s no secret that supercomputers require a lot of energy to run. Organizations have tried using different cooling methods to keep the cost of running a datacenter down, while Adaptive Computing is going about things a different way, with workload management software.Read more...
Could Datacenters Go Natural?
As organizations continue to research cheaper and more efficient ways to power and cool their datacenters, TeraCool has hit on a method that could achieve both for free. The organization is proposing that datacenters be located near natural gas plants, which could provide a center’s cooling and power for nothing.Read more...
