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Texas Data Centers Rely on Generators Amid Power Emergency

By Rich Miller - February 18, 2021 4 Comments

Many Texas data center operators are relying on emergency backup generators like these to keep customers online during the winter weather crisis. (Photo: Rich Miller)

Amid a statewide power emergency, major data centers in Texas are running on generator power to keep customers online and reduce load on the state’s struggling grid. Large operators say service is uninterrupted, but news reports indicate some data centers in the region are experiencing outages.

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Trends in Next Generation Power Monitoring

By Voices of the Industry - February 17, 2021 Leave a Comment

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Alan Katz, Product Manager for MCMS at Anord Mardix, highlights how the advent of intelligent power monitoring has brought about a variety of new opportunities and positive benefits for the data center industry.

Tagged With: Anord Mardix, data center energy, multi-circuit metering, power monitoring, waveform

CBRE Embraces Software-Defined Power with VPS Partnership

By Rich Miller - February 12, 2021 Leave a Comment

Software-defined power will be available to more data centers through CBRE Data Center Solutions, which will offer its global clients a suite of services from Virtual Power Systems (VPS) that unlock stranded power capacity.

Tagged With: CBRE, Virtual Power Systems

The Power of Progress: Price, Predictability Boost Interest in Renewables

By Rich Miller - February 8, 2021 Leave a Comment

Iron Mountain has deployed a 7 megawatt solar array on the roof of its data center in Edison, N.J. (Image: Iron Mountain Data Centers)

The outlook on renewable energy for data centers is changing. That’s one takeaway from a conversation with Iron Mountain executives Kevin Hagen and Alex Sharp about the future of sustainable data centers.

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Beyond Green Power: New Frontiers in Data Center Sustainability

By Rich Miller - February 3, 2021 1 Comment

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As the drive for data center sustainability enters a new and more urgent phase, what are the next frontiers beyond efficiency and energy sourcing? Here’s a look at the technologies, strategies and best practices we are watching at Data Center Frontier: 

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Dominion Energy Plans More Green Power for Virginia’s Data Centers

By Rich Miller - January 27, 2021 Leave a Comment

Solar panels at Dominion Energy's Whitehouse generation project in Louisa County. The 250-acre array generates 20 megawatts of solar energy. (Photo: Dominion Energy)

Dominion Energy is developing more renewable energy for its power grid, a welcome development for tech companies seeking more green power for their data centers in Northern Virginia.

Tagged With: Ashburn, Dominion Energy, Northern Virginia, Renewable Energy, Solar, Wind

The Power of the Negawatt: Efficiency Improves Data Centers’ Energy Impact

By Rich Miller - January 25, 2021 1 Comment

High-capacity power lines in Manassas , support data center development in Prince William County. ( Photo: Rich Miller)

Cloud computing has emerged as a surprising force for sustainability, improving its energy efficiency while emerging as the largest buyers of renewable energy. A new DCF special report highlights the key role data centers are playing in sustainability.

Tagged With: Data Center Frontier Special Report, data center sustainability, Green Data Center, Iron Mountain, sustainability

Echelon Sees Green in Wind-Powered Irish Data Center Project

By Rich Miller - January 11, 2021 Leave a Comment

An illustration of Echelon Data Centres newest project near Dublin, which includes wind power generation. (Image: Echelon Data)

Echelon Data Centres is bringing integrated renewable energy to its new wind-powered data center project in the Dublin market, one of Europe’s most important cloud computing hubs.

Amazon Buys Solar, Wind Power to Speed Shift to a Renewable AWS Cloud

By Rich Miller - December 10, 2020 Leave a Comment

Amazon today announced a massive investment in 3.4 gigawatts (GW) of solar and wind power, which will accelerate the company’s timeline to power its AWS cloud infrastructure with renewable energy by five years.

Tagged With: Amazon Web Services, Renewable Energy, Solar, Wind

Next-Gen Power Supply for This-Gen Businesses

By Voices of the Industry - December 4, 2020 Leave a Comment

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Power use growth has been offset through energy efficiency gained by the dramatic shift of compute workloads from legacy data centers to newer, significantly more efficient, enterprise-class colocation campuses and hyperscale cloud data centers. Ben Garrard, Vice President of Product Management at CoreSite, takes a deep dive into the changing landscape of power supply in today’s data centers. 

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