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Aligned Expands Green Loan by $1.4 Billion to Accelerate Growth

By Rich Miller - May 19, 2022 Leave a Comment

A large data hall in an Aligned facility. (Photo: Aligned)

Aligned Data Centers has increased its sustainability-linked loan from $375 million to $1.75 billion . The additional $1.4 billion in funding provides Aligned with more resources to build data centers for its customers, many of whom are working to reduce their climate impact.

Tagged With: Aligned, Sustainable Finance

A Sensible Path to Data Center Sustainability

By Paul Gillin - May 16, 2022 Leave a Comment

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New technologies are driving data center energy demand, while customers seek to reducing energy consumption. Managing rapid growth and improving data center sustainability aren’t mutually exclusive goals, according to Kohler.

Tagged With: data center sustainability, Energy Efficiency, Hyperscale, Kohler Power Systems

Maintaining Low-Latency and Sustainability at the Network Edge

By Voices of the Industry - May 16, 2022 Leave a Comment

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Schneider Electric’s Steven Carlini and Andres Vasquez discuss building data centers at the network edge while also meeting sustainability goals.

Tagged With: cloud computing, data center sustainability, edge, Schneider Electric

Meta Using AI to Create Greener Concrete for its Data Centers

By Rich Miller - April 27, 2022 1 Comment

A low-carbon concrete formula is poured at the DeKalb data center location in the construction personnel office space. (Photo: Meta)

Can the servers inside a data center make the walls and floors greener? Researchers at Meta and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are using artificial intelligence to reduce the environmental impact of concrete.

Tagged With: Data Center Construction, Meta

Cloud Platforms, Data Center Builders Join iMasons Accord to Slash Carbon

By Rich Miller - April 26, 2022 Leave a Comment

Google, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services and Meta are among more than 70 companies joining the iMasons Climate Accord, which calls for new steps to track and reduce the environmental impact of the data centers that power the Internet.

Tagged With: Amazon Web Services, Google, Infrastructure Masons, Meta, Microsoft

Iron Mountain Raises its Game with Hyperscale Wins, ITRenew Acquisition

By Rich Miller - April 25, 2022 Leave a Comment

The Iron Mountain-VA-2 data center in Manassas, Virginia. (Photo: Rich Miller)

Iron Mountain is becoming a larger force in the data center business, building beyond its base of enterprise customers with recent hyperscale wins. The recent acquisition of ITRenew may boost Iron Mountain’s sustainability strategy.

Tagged With: Circular Economy, Enterprise, Iron Mountain, IT Renew

CFD Simulations Validate Data Center Cooling Designs

By Kathy Hitchens - April 25, 2022 Leave a Comment

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Kao Data was determined to design their new data centers to be as energy efficient as possible. Future Facilities explores how computational fluid dynamic (CFD) simulations can be used to validate the design of data center cooling systems.

Tagged With: Artificial Intelligence, Cooling, future facilities, Virtualization

How Data Center Management Solutions Drive Sustainability and Help Ensure a Climate-Secure World

By Voices of the Industry - April 25, 2022 Leave a Comment

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The data center industry, which gave wings and provided thrust to the digital transformation of business and society during a time of tumultuous change, has another urgent, mission-critical responsibility—to our environment. Eric Xie, Software Application Engineer for Intel Data Center Management Solutions, explores the journey to data center sustainability and net zero carbon emissions, including the role that data management solutions will play.

Tagged With: Data Center Management, data center sustainability, Energy Consumption, Intel DCM

Sean Farney: Sustainability is Now A Board-Level Imperative

By Rich Miller - April 22, 2022 Leave a Comment

Industry veteran Sean Farney has been involved in some of the most innovative projects in digital infrastructure. In our Earth Day edition of the DCF Show, Sean discusses the progress on data center sustainability, the future of backup power, and converting stores into edge data centers.

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Earth Day 2022: The Cloud is Getting Greener, But Much Work Remains

By Rich Miller - April 22, 2022 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)

The theme for today’s Earth Day 2022 is “Invest in Our Planet.” DCF looks at the investments made by cloud platforms in how they build, operate and power for the data centers – along with innovations from the past year that may help mitigate climate change.

Tagged With: Climate Change, Earth Day, Geothermal, Renewable Energy, Water

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Overcoming Supply Chain Roadblocks: How to Avoid Disruptions in Your Data Center

Overcoming Supply Chain Roadblocks: How to Avoid Disruptions in Your Data Center The data center industry continues to experience significant global supply chain problems. Brett Williams of Service Express, explores the importance of leveraging the secondary hardware market to overcome supply chain roadblocks.

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Data Center Planning — Who’s on First — Real Estate or Technology?

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Edge Computing is Poised to Remake the Data Center Landscape

Data center leaders are investing in edge computing and edge solutions and actively looking at new ways to deploy edge capacity to support evolving business and user requirements.

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Northern Virginia Data Center Market: The Focal Point for Cloud Growth

The Northern Virginia data center market is seeing a surge in supply and an even bigger surge in demand. Data Center Frontier explores trends, stats and future expectations for the No. 1 data center market in the country.

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Data Center 101: Mastering the Basics of the Data Center Industry

Data Center Frontier, in partnership with Open Spectrum, brings our readers a series that provides an introductory guidebook to the ins and outs of the data center and colocation industry. Think power systems, cooling, solutions, data center contracts and more. The Data Center 101 Special Report series is directed to those new to the industry, or those of our readers who need to brush up on the basics.

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