It’s virtually impossible to imagine a city without conjuring an image of its skyline, or at the very least, a vista of the buildings that populate it. Likewise, in smart cities, smart […]
Smart Buildings: Forming The Foundation Of Smart Cities
A new global standard for green data centers
Data centers, like other industries, have beenlabelled as a contributor to global warming. There they sit, using power generated by fossil fuels in their racks, burning even more energy in their cooling […]
Data Center Sustainability and The Three R’s
In the data center industry, leaders such as Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and Equinix have all taken a visibly strong stance on sustainability. These companies have each appointed personnel dedicated to driving […]
The future of data centers is green
Swedish researcher Anders Andrae predicts that by 2025, data centers will amount to ICT’s largest share of global electricity production at 33 percent, followed by smartphones (15 percent) networks (10 percent) and […]
How IsBank’s Istanbul data centre achieved Tier IV Gold Operational Sustainability
One of only ten data centres worldwide to secure the Uptime Institute’s highest certification for operational sustainability. Reaching that standard was very much a ‘people process’, explains RED’s Kerim Oktay. Tweeted by […]
We love winning the gold!
CommScope’s strong focus on corporate social responsibility (CSR) has been recognized for a third consecutive year with a Gold CSR rating by EcoVadis, a global leader in monitoring, benchmarking and enabling sustainability […]
WindCores project deploys small data centers inside wind turbines
German wind turbine operator WestfalenWind-Group is pushing forward with its plans to put data centers inside turbines. Designed by a subsidiary called WestfalenWind IT, the WindCores project has operated a small data […]
Have we reached the sustainability ‘tipping point’ for data centers?
Without action, the world’s average surface temperature is likely to surpass 3 degrees centigrade this century. Frankly, it’s about time that a company’s data management became a part of that broader climate […]
Three Massive Solar Farms Going Up to Power Facebook Data Centers
If things go according to plan, three new utility-scale solar projects in Utah and New Mexico will add nearly 160MW of generation capacity to the Facebook data center power supply in the […]
Achieving Sustainability through Flexibility in the Data Center
Over the past ten years, efficiency has been a key driver in developing new data center designs and adopting new generations of hardware. Sustainability as a concept has not often been discussed […]
