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Switch, Equinix Receive EPA Green Power Leadership Recognition

By Rich Miller - September 5, 2019

Frontier Spotlight January 2019

Data center providers Switch and Equinix have received a 2019 Green Power Leadership Award from the EPA, along with hyperscale operators Google and Microsoft and chipmaker Intel.

Tagged With: Equinix, Green Data Centers, Renewable Energy, switch, Switch Data Centers

Data Center Sustainability Becomes Priority As Data, Power Needs Continue to Grow

By Sarah Rubenoff - April 4, 2019

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For many of today’s cutting-edge and hyper competitive enterprises, environmental stewardship and sustainability are becoming key to their business strategies. And nowhere is this more true than in the data center. A new Digital Realty white paper takes a deep look at clean energy, how to acquire it and how to craft your data center sustainability strategy.

Tagged With: Data Center Power, data center sustainability, Digital Realty, Green Data Centers

Using Servers to Heat Homes: Facebook Embraces Heat Recycling

By Rich Miller - September 5, 2017

frontier spotlight june 2018

Facebook will use heat energy from servers in its data center in Denmark to warm up to 6,900 nearby homes through a district heating system.

Tagged With: Green Data Centers, Heat Recycling

Data Centers Forge Ahead With Shift to Renewable Energy

By Rich Miller - June 2, 2017

In today’s data center industry, going green isn’t only good for the environment, it’s also good for business. Bill Kleyman looks at the rise of renewables. (Photo: IBM)

Despite the Trump administration’s decision, the data center industry is continuing to lead the shift to renewable energy to power the Internet economy.

Tagged With: Green Data Centers, Renewable Energy, Solar, Wind

A Call for Data Center Sustainability

By Voices of the Industry - April 4, 2016

Adam Kramer, Switch’s Executive Vice President of Strategy, explores what it really means for a data center to be green. He also makes a call to data center providers and large enterprise users to make sure they are striving to powering their data center on 100% renewable power.

Tagged With: Green Data Centers, sustainability, switch

Renewable Energy Innovations in Green Data Centers

By Voices of the Industry - March 1, 2016

From underwater data centers to DIY infrastructure, Aaron Binkley, Digital Realty’s Director of Sustainability, highlights several innovations in renewable energy that are showing up in green data centers.

Tagged With: Digital Realty, Green Data Centers, Renewable Energy

Why Renewable Energy Will Power the Green Data Centers of Tomorrow

By Bill Kleyman - January 19, 2016

In today’s data center industry, going green isn’t only good for the environment, it’s also good for business. Bill Kleyman looks at the rise of renewables. (Photo: IBM)

As demand for the modern data center increases and as the digital revolution continues, learn how the leading data center operators are finding that clean power is becoming price-competitive with utility-sourced power in many markets.

Tagged With: Digital Realty, Green Data Centers

Switch Goes Green With Renewable Power for SUPERNAPs

By Rich Miller - January 5, 2016

High density racksinside the SUPERNAP data centers in Las Vegas.

As of January 1, the Switch SUPERNAP data centers and their more than 1,000 colocation and cloud computing customers are fully powered by renewable energy from NV Energy,

Tagged With: Green Data Centers, switch

Greening Colo: Equinix Pursues a More Sustainable Internet

By Rich Miller - December 3, 2015

Bloom Energy Server fuel cells at the Equinix SV 5 data center in San Jose. (Photo: Rich Miller)

The use of Bloom Energy Server fuel cells powered by biogas at an Equinix Silicon Valley data center is a symbol of a much larger vision for an Internet powered by sustainable energy. For Equinix, 2015 has been a year of huge strides on the sustainability front.

Tagged With: Colocation, Equinix, Green Data Centers, Renewable Energy

Bloom Energy and Fuel Cells in the Data Center: Evolution or Revolution?

By Rich Miller - August 13, 2015

Bloom boxes

Bloom Energy Server fuel cells are being seen in more data centers as the industry focuses on carbon output. In making the case for fuel cells, Bloom is advancing a fundamental rethinking of data center power systems.

Tagged With: Bloom Energy, Data Center Power, Fuel Cells, Green Data Centers

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Understanding the Differences Between 5 Common Types of Data Centers

Understanding the Differences Between 5 Common Types of Data Centers No two are data centers are alike when it comes to design or the applications and data they support with their networking, compute and storage infrastructure. Shad Secrist of Belden outlines the differences between 5 of the most common types of data centers including edge, colocation and hyperscale.

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2022 Data Center & Infrastructure Report

Service Express reveals the results of their survey of 700 US IT professionals in the 2022 Data Center & Infrastructure Report. Key findings reveal the continued need for strengthening security, reducing costs, and on-premises data centers.

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Data center modules on display at the recent Edge Congress conference in Austin, Texas. (Photo: Rich Miller)

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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