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Renewable Rooftops: Iron Mountain Plans Massive NJ Solar Array

By Rich Miller - October 23, 2019 Leave a Comment

Solar panels at a 14 megawatt solar array supporting a data center in New Jersey. (Photo: Rich Miller)

Iron Mountain is building a 7.2 megawatt solar energy array on the roof of its massive data center building in Edison, N.J., which will be the largest rooftop solar deployment in the US data center industry.

Tagged With: Iron Mountain, New Jersey, Renewable Energy, Solar

Switch, Equinix Receive EPA Green Power Leadership Recognition

By Rich Miller - September 5, 2019 Leave a Comment

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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

Google’s Kava Looks to Take Data Center Sustainability to the Next Level

By Rich Miller - June 24, 2019 Leave a Comment

Joe Kava, who heads the data center operation at Google, is honored as the Infrastructure Masons 2019 Sustainability Champion at the recent Datacloud Congress in Monaco.

Google’s Joe Kava receives the Infrastructure Masons 2019 Sustainability Champion award, vowing that Google will become even greener, and challenging the entire data center industry to join the effort.

Tagged With: Google, Infrastructure Masons, Renewable Energy

Dominion Energy Adds Solar Power for Facebook Data Centers

By Rich Miller - April 23, 2019 Leave a Comment

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Dominion Energy will add six new solar power facilities to provide 350 MW of renewable energy for Facebook data centers. The new supply helps address the concerns raised by Greenpeace about the pace of Dominion’s renewable energy program.

Tagged With: Dominion Energy, Facebook, Northern Virginia, Renewable Energy, Solar

Iron Mountain Brings Green Power to Its Colocation Customers

By Rich Miller - April 22, 2019 Leave a Comment

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On Earth Day 2019, data center providers have new tools to make renewable power accessible to customers in multi-tenant data centers. Iron Mountain’s Green Power Program is the first offering based on new carbon accounting guidelines from the Future of Internet Power collaboration.

Tagged With: Iron Mountain, Renewable Energy, Solar, Wind

Data Centers Becoming Larger Players in Power Markets

By Rich Miller - March 28, 2019 Leave a Comment

Bulk power distribution towers in New Jersey. (Photo: Rich Miller)

Data centers are becoming important players in the U.S. electricity market, and will likely adopt more financial trading strategies to manage their cost of energy, commodity analysts during a session at Data Center World.

Tagged With: Renewable Energy

Greenpeace: Northern Virginia Data Centers Need A Cleaner Cloud

By Rich Miller - February 14, 2019 Leave a Comment

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

Greenpeace says Virginia utility Dominion Energy has not kept pace with the data center industry’s appetite for renewable energy. The environmental group singled out Amazon Web Service for its rate of adoption of green power.

Tagged With: Amazon Web Services, Greenpeace, Northern Virginia, Renewable Energy, Solar

Google Makes Major Investment in Solar Energy to Power its Cloud

By Rich Miller - January 16, 2019 Leave a Comment

An aerial view of Google's Tennessee data center under construction (Photo:: Aerial Innovations for Google).

Google is purchasing 413 megawatts of solar power from the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), spanning 1.6 million solar panels, to power its new data centers in Tennessee and Alabama.

Tagged With: Google, Renewable Energy, Solar

Voices of 2018: Renewable Energy, the Cloud & Security

By Sarah Rubenoff - December 24, 2018 Leave a Comment

Data centers' adoption of renewable energy sources like wind power were a topic of discussion in 2018. (Image: Unsplash)

DCF’s Voices of the Industry columns provide expert insights from industry leaders. Here’s a look at the Top 10 Voices columns of 2018 focused on trends like renewable energy, IT security, and data center construction.

Tagged With: Cloud, Colocation, Renewable Energy, Security

Doubling Down on Renewable Power

By Voices of the Industry - September 10, 2018 1 Comment

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In this edition of Voices of the Industry, Aaron Binkley, senior director of sustainability at Digital Realty, explores how data center providers are capturing sustainability gains by switching to clean energy and renewable power. 

Tagged With: Data Center Power, Digital Realty, Renewable Energy, sustainability

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Life on the Edge: Distributed Networks and the Need for Access and Control Patrick Quirk, Vice President and General Manager, IT Systems at Vertiv, explores distributed networks, and how access, control and full visibility is key for success. Quirk  highlights technology like serial consoles, available to enable and simplify remote management of distributed networks and IT sites. 

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