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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

How Efficient Power Supplies Reduce Data Center Power Consumption

By Kathy Hitchens - April 18, 2022 Leave a Comment

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Global data centers must meet their customer’s growing processing and storage needs, while also making data center operations more energy efficient and sustainable. Advanced Energy explores how data centers can achieve their sustainability goals with power supplies optimized for efficiency and density.

Tagged With: Advanced Energy, data center sustainability, Energy Efficiency, Hyperscale data center, Power supplies

Water Is Life

By Voices of the Industry - March 11, 2022

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Water is a resource we must acknowledge as finite, and we must safeguard it accordingly. Stream Data Center’s Chris Bair and Yvonne Deir share their perspectives on data center water use and how to optimize water consumption.

Tagged With: data center sustainability, data center water, Energy Efficiency, Stream Data Centers

Environmental Stewardship Begins with Sustainable Infrastructure

By Voices of the Industry - January 28, 2022

The Aligned Ashburn data center in Northern Virginia. (Photo: Aligned)

Sustainability has become a critical corporate value as consumers and even investors across a range of industries. Phill Lawson-Shanks of Aligned explores why sustainable data center infrastructure is critical for a sustainable future.

Tagged With: Aligned, Cloud, data center sustainability, Energy Efficiency, Hyperscale

The Design Horizon: Differentiating Your Data Center with Scalable Cooling Infrastructure

By Voices of the Industry - January 26, 2022

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To meet your density outlook and stay flexible, what kind of precision cooling system can support your need to maximize server space, minimize low pressure areas, reduce costs, and reduce requirements? Eric Jensen of Data Aire explores how a scalable, flexible and efficient cooling infrastructure can meet density needs. 

Tagged With: Data Aire, Data Center Cooling, data center sustainability, Energy Efficiency

Data Center Sustainability: 23 Metrics Every Data Center Operator Should Measure

By Kathy Hitchens - December 15, 2021

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Without standardized sustainability metrics, it’s difficult to ensure internal alignment between design, procurement, operations, and sustainability teams. Schneider Electric proposes five categories of data center sustainability metrics that can be used to report on environmental sustainability.

Tagged With: data center sustainability, data center water, Energy Efficiency, Schneider Electric

Boost Your Data Center Cooling ROI with Precise Load Matching. Do You Know Which Solution is Right for You?

By Voices of the Industry - July 19, 2021

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Have you considered all of the available precision cooling options with your design engineer and your environmental control manufacturer? Matt Vicker, Product Development Manager at Data Aire explores how data centers can boost their ROI with one of three different types of precision cooling systems. 

Tagged With: Data Aire, Data Center Cooling, Energy Efficiency, precision cooling

The Benefits of Washington State’s Hydropower and Energy Efficiency

By Voices of the Industry - October 26, 2020

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Tim Mirick, Chief Revenue Officer at Sabey Data Centers highlights how Washington’s hydropower and energy efficiency efforts create the perfect environment for data center sustainability.

Tagged With: Energy Efficiency, hydropower, Sabey Data Centers, washington

Exploring the Potential of 415 VAC Power Distribution in Data Centers to Boost Power Efficiency

By Sarah Rubenoff - August 5, 2020

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High physical density and high power density go “hand in hand” when it comes to the data center. That’s according to a new report from Server Technology that contends to maximize both without having to pay for specialty infrastructure, many data centers have found it attractive to deploy 415V 3-phase AC power to the rack.

Tagged With: Data Center Power, Energy Efficiency, Rack Power Distribution, Server Technology, white paper

Aligned Steps Up Renewable Adoption, Matches 100 Percent of IT Load

By Rich Miller - February 26, 2020

The Aligned Ashburn data center in Northern Virginia. (Photo: Aligned)

Aligned has matched the entire IT load of its data centers with renewable energy, as part of a holistic sustainability program spanning all parts of its operations.

Tagged With: Aligned, Energy Efficiency, Green Data Centers, Renewable Energy

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Mitigate Risk, Improve Performance and Decrease Operating Expenses through Data Center Self-Performance

Mitigate Risk, Improve Performance and Decrease Operating Expenses through Data Center Self-Performance If a vendor conducts the actual work in your data center, then you or your operator aren’t maximizing your current operating resources and are experiencing incremental cost and risk. Chad Giddings of BCS Data Center Operations, explains the importance of your data center provider having a high-degree of self-performance.

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The Case for Colocation in Enterprise Edge IT Strategy

In a recent survey, enterprises were asked what the top factors were when determining where to process IoT workloads. More than half said security was the top factor, with cost and networking connections also ranking among top concerns. This white paper, sponsored by Stream Data Centers, explores the case for colocation in enterprise edge IT strategy. 

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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 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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