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Emerson Opens New Green Global Data Center

07/27/2009 - 7:26pm GMT

Manufacturing and technology company Emerson opened its new $50 million state-of-the-art global data center today -- a 35,000-square-foot facility that's expected to be 31 percent more energy efficient than a standard facility. With Missouri Gov....

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Dell Unveils Energy Savings Calculator

07/27/2009 - 3:50pm GMT

Dell unveiled an energy savings calculator today that goes beyond what most others offer. More than just monitoring energy usage, this tool allows a customer to view power consumption for individual components, such as monitors or graphics cards,...

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Google Embraces Free Cooling in Belgian Data Center

07/22/2009 - 3:00am GMT

The evolution of data center efficiency has taken another step in Google's data center in Saint-Ghislain, Belgium: the facility has no chillers to keep temperatures down. Rather than using internal air-conditioning for cooling the hardware, the...

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Recession Takes Its Toll on Green IT

07/20/2009 - 5:03pm GMT

It was likely only a matter of time, but the global economic downturn has taken its toll on green IT projects, according to new research from Forrester. In "The Recession Dents Green IT's Global Momentum," Christopher Mines details how,...

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Can Cloud Computing Reduce Greenhouse Gasses?

07/15/2009 - 7:24pm GMT

Companies using outsourced data centers can save thousands of dollars per year in energy costs, as well as make significant cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, according to a recent study. Based on the energy savings earned by customers of NetSuite, a...

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Discarded E-Waste Could Be Put to Work in Medicine

07/14/2009 - 3:13pm GMT

An announcement from the University of York's Green Chemistry Centre of Excellence offers a highly innovative potential use for e-waste, one that also brings a cradle-to-cradle mindset to disposing of technology. Researchers at the university's...

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IBM Dominates List of Green Supercomputers

07/14/2009 - 1:06pm GMT

The latest rankings from the Green500 list of the world's greenest high-performance computers (HPCs) finds IBM holding sway as the leading provider of the most energy-efficient supercomputers in the world. The company holds 18 out of 20 of the top...

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Xcel Energy Launches Incentives for IT Managers to Go Green

07/13/2009 - 8:01pm GMT

Xcel Energy is hoping to lighten the load on its grid by encouraging IT managers to implement energy efficiency programs. The company's new Data Center Efficiency program, currently available in Minnesota and Colorado, will offer significant...

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Fairmont Hotels Power Up Green IT Program

07/07/2009 - 8:48pm GMT

Fairmont Hotels & Resorts are adding eco-friendly IT strategies to the company's Green Partnership environmental program and are developing power management, procurement and recycling plans for their facilities. The Fairmont Green Partnership...

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U.K. Groups Call for £1 Billion Stimulus Plan for Efficient IT

07/07/2009 - 6:26pm GMT

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