Apple’s Oregon Data Center: Solar Behemoth
Apple’s Prineville data center will come with a huge solar array, according to the town’s mayor, and it could be a state-leading 20 megawatts or more.
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New Iowa Wind Farm Will Feed Facebook Data Center
Facebook says one of those five wind farms now under construction in Iowa will allow it to match all its Altoona data center energy usage with renewables.
GM’s LEED Gold Data Center Slashes Electric Bill By 70%
Companies like GM are slowly realizing the high cost of this data center power consumption, however, and working to make them more efficient.
Apple Building Big Solar Farm In Nevada
A new Apple data center in Reno will be partly powered by a big solar farm that will use low-concentration PV technology and a unique financing arrangement.
Sears Holdings Tries To Recycle The ‘Big Box’
Sears Holdings’ new Ubiquity division wants to adapt its closed Sears and Kmart retail stories into cost-effective data centers, disaster recovery depots or cell-tower locations.
Facebook Does Hydro: Sweden Data Center Opens
Taking advantage of existing hydropower, Facebook opens a data center in Luleå, Sweden, that the company says run 100 percent on renewable energy.
Seawater Saves Swedish Data Center A Cool Million
Stockholm’s built-in underground pipe system made seawater cooling a no-brainer for this data center.
Wind Envy: Nebraskans Want Some Of Iowa’s Action
After Facebook chose Iowa for its new data center, some Nebraskans are asking why the state is lagging so badly in developing its vast wind resource.
Wind Power Draws Facebook To Iowa
“An abundance of wind-generated power” is chief of among the reasons Facebook will build a new data center in Iowa, the company said.
NREL Cools Cloud Computing Costs With Warm Water
The National Renewable Energy Lab is hoping to save $1 million in data-center energy costs by using a warm-water method to dissipate heat from petascale servers.