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The State of Renewable Energy for Data Centers

By Paul Gillin - May 25, 2022 Leave a Comment

Solar

The U.S. Energy Information Association (EIA) lists five major sources of renewable energy. We look at the state of three types of renewables for data centers – solar, wind, and geothermal power.

Tagged With: data center sustainability, Kohler Power Systems, Renewable Energy, Solar

Cloud Titans Were the Largest Buyers of Renewable Energy in 2021

By Rich Miller - February 11, 2022

The Amazon wind far in Texas that helps provide green energy for the AWS cloud. (Photo: Jordan Stead/ Amazon)

The top cloud computing companies accelerated their purchases of renewable energy last year accounting for more than half of all corporate clean energy power purchase agreements in 2021. The data confirms that data center operators are stepping up their sustainability efforts.

Tagged With: Amazon Web Services, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Renewable Energy, Solar, Wind

The Cloud Computing Community Confronts Climate Change

By Rich Miller - August 16, 2021

The Amazon wind far in Texas that helps provide green energy for the AWS cloud. (Photo: Jordan Stead/ Amazon)

As the world confronts the growing urgency of the climate crisis, top cloud computing companies are stepping up their efforts to lead the transition to a cleaner economy. Here’s a look at the next phase of the cloud sector’s climate impact.

Tagged With: Editors Choice 3, Google, Green Data Centers, HPE, Infrastructure Masons, Microsoft, Renewable Energy, Solar, Wind

10 Gigawatts: Amazon Hits Milestone in Renewable Energy Purchasing

By Rich Miller - June 25, 2021

A large solar array on the roof of an Amazon distribution center. (Image: Amazon)

Newly-announced solar and wind projects bring Amazon’s total renewable energy investments to date to 10 gigawatts (GW), and amplifies the huge role of cloud computing platforms in leading a society-wide transition to renewable energy.

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

Google Moving Workloads Between Data Centers to Use Greener Energy

By Rich Miller - May 18, 2021

The Google data center campus at Eemshaven in the Netherlands, with nearby wind turbines in the background. (Photo: Google)

Google is moving IT workloads between its data centers to boost its use of renewable energy, shifting the data processing for YouTube videos to locations where green power is plentiful. This approach creates powerful new opportunities to build climate-aware cloud applications.

Tagged With: Artificial Intelligence, Geothermal, Google, Solar, Wind

Earth Day 2021: Data Centers Adopt Renewables, Innovate on Efficiency

By Colleen Miller - April 22, 2021

Earth Day 2021 is focusing on “Restore Our Earth.” Here’s a look at how the data center industry continues to expand its use of green technologies, renewable energy and innovations in efficiency.

Tagged With: Renewable Energy, Solar, Wind

Can Cloud Computing Lead the Way on Climate?

By Rich Miller - February 9, 2021

Cloud computing's growing role in the energy markets positions the data center industry to drive a global shift to renewably-powered business. New on the DCF Show.

When it comes to climate change, it is time for the data center sector to lead. On the DCF Show Podcast, Rich Miller outlines how cloud computing can drive a global shift to renewably-powered business.

Tagged With: Renewable Energy, Solar, Wind

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

By Rich Miller - January 27, 2021

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

Google Looks to Batteries as Replacement for Diesel Generators

By Rich Miller - December 16, 2020

Google will use large batteries to replace the diesel generators at its data center in Belgium, describing the project as a first step towards using cleaner technologies to provide backup power for millions of servers around the world.

Tagged With: Generators, Google, Lithium-Ion Batteries, Renewable Energy, Solar, Wind

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

By Rich Miller - December 10, 2020

The Amazon wind far in Texas that helps provide green energy for the AWS cloud. (Photo: Jordan Stead/ Amazon)

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

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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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A new white paper from Intel explores how Intel MCA Recovery  + MFP has helped JD Cloud provide efficient and stable services to their more than 2,500 partners.

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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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