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Datacentre cooling infrastructure

• June 28, 2013 28 Jun'13

  Power supply is top consideration when choosing datacentres, shows study

  Power supply is most important to managers choosing a new datacentre, says UK and European Data Centre Barometer study

• June 25, 2013 25 Jun'13

  Microsoft to invest $700m on datacentre expansion

  Microsoft is planning a $677.6m (£440m) investment to expand its existing datacentre in West Des Moines, Iowa

• June 20, 2013 20 Jun'13

  Moving business apps to the cloud can yield power savings, shows study

  Moving business apps, including email and CRM, from local IT systems to the cloud could cut energy consumption by up to 87%

• June 19, 2013 19 Jun'13

  Cloud providers must step up green IT efforts, says Greenpeace

  Public cloud giants such as AWS and Microsoft must step up efforts in using sustainable energy, says Greenpeace

• June 14, 2013 14 Jun'13

  Facebook's Arctic datacentre in Luleå, Sweden goes live

  Facebook’s newest datacentre in Luleå, Sweden is turned on to handle live traffic and is storing users’ photos, videos, comments and likes

• June 12, 2013 12 Jun'13

  Colt slashes datacentre power use by 43GWh and saves €4m

  Colt has reduced annual datacentre electricity consumption by 43GWh and saved €4m per year since its energy efficiency programme began

• May 30, 2013 30 May'13

  Capgemini wins European Commission's datacentre energy efficiency award

  Innovation and energy efficiency at Capgemini's Merlin datacentre in Swindon has won the 2013 EU Code of Conduct for Datacentres award

• May 21, 2013 21 May'13

  EC-funded datacentre efficiency project CoolEmAll releases first prototypes

  The European Commission funded project CoolEmAll has released the first prototypes of tools designed to make datacentres more efficient

• May 21, 2013 21 May'13

  UK ranked safest datacentre location in Europe but lags behind US in global ranking

  The UK has been ranked as the lowest-risk destination in Europe for businesses to build datacentres, a Data Centre Risk Index 2013 shows

• May 14, 2013 14 May'13

  Green Grid highlights crucial role of datacentre facility operator

  A datacentre facility operator should be involved throughout IT lifecycle to optimise energy efficiency and minimise complications

• May 13, 2013 13 May'13

  Another datacentre infrastructure management (DCIM) tool hits the market

  Digital Realty Trust has become the latest datacentre provider to launch a DCIM service called EnVision

• April 02, 2013 02 Apr'13

  Apple's renewable energy-powered datacentres account for 2% of its carbon footprint

  Apple was responsible for 30.9 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions in 2012, but only 2% of that was from its datacentres

• March 18, 2013 18 Mar'13

  Low energy prices in US attract datacentre investment at Europe’s expense

  Low and stable electricity prices are likely to make the US a target for datacentre investment at Europe’s expense

• March 13, 2013 13 Mar'13

  Warren School upgrades legacy IT for BYOD and flexibility

  Essex-based Warren School has replaced legacy servers with virtualised, consolidated infrastructure for a BYOD programme for staff and students

• March 12, 2013 12 Mar'13

  The Green Grid launches EDE metric to measure datacentre e-waste management

  The Green Grid launches Electronics Disposal Efficiency metric to measure how datacentre e-waste is managed