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And here's my list of The Top 10 Data Center blogs http://bit.ly/hGoG0I - who have I missed? #datacenter

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A majority of servers in data centers operate at only four percent average utilization, representing a huge opportunity for organizations to reduce energy use through better design and operation, according to findings by Greening Greater Toronto

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If a business could identify the servers doing productive work and turn off its non-productive ones, it could save 20 to 40 percent of energy use while reducing the infrastructure cooling load. When you consider that each watt of IT energy requires at least as much energy in infrastructure support, a huge potential for savings and energy reduction exists without a risk to day-to-day operations.

Here are seven reasons to remove orphan servers from the data center floor...

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Data centers are some of the most notorious energy-guzzlers around, which is why it's so exciting when companies like Google reveal innovative designs to cut down on data center power use. It's also why its so disappointing to learn that the company behind the number two most popular Web destination, Facebook, powering its first custom data center with coal.

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Data Center Dynamics magazine honored Microsoft's efforts with the Datacenter Leaders Award 2009 for Innovation in the Mega Datacenter category for Microsoft’s new Dublin datacenter. The awards were created to recognize achievements in sustainability, efficiency and true innovation in datacenter design and operations across public and private sectors in the UK, Ireland and Europe.

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The US Environmental Protection Agency is wrapping up work on an Energy Star program for data centres that it hopes to launch in June, EPA officials said this week.

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Cold Aisle Containment case study presented at the Silicon Valley Leadership Group's Data Center Energy Efficiency Summit.

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Data centers are, thankfully, getting a lot of attention when it comes to making them more efficient. Considering that roughly 60% of the electricity used at a data center goes to keeping the servers cool, focusing on smart cooling tactics is essential. HP has taken this to heart and has opened it's first wind-cooled data center, and it's the company's most efficient data center to date.

In this piece, HP claims that their data center is the world's first wind-cooled data center - I'm not sure just how valid this is as I have heard BT only do wind-cooled data centers!

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A new industry group is hoping that the same amount of energy now used to power the Internet and other global networks for one day will eventually power them for three years.\n\nUnveiled by its organizer Bell Labs on Monday, the global consortium, dubbed Green Touch, has set a challenging agenda for itself--to plan and demonstrate the necessary technologies to make today's networks 1,000 times more energy efficient than they are today

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"In western Pennsylvania, a data center is using the benefits of a very cool location. It's Iron Mountain's man-made caverns in an old limestone mine, and in room 48, an experiment in data center efficiency design and the use of geothermal environmental conditions for extra efficiency is taking place. In other words, researchers are trying to find out if putting data centers deep underground will be an ideal place for them. "

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"Google is seeking to patent an advanced data center cooling system that provides precision cooling inside racks of servers, automatically adjusting to temperature changes while dramatically reducing the energy required to run chillers."

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Syracuse University, with partners IBM and New York State, today celebrated the construction of its new Green Data Center - a showcase of world-class innovations in advanced energy-efficient information technology and building systems.

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"In the chill of a massive cave beneath an orthodox Christian cathedral in Helsinki, Finland, a city power firm is preparing what it thinks will be the greenest data center on the planet.

Excess heat from hundreds of computer servers to be located in the bedrock beneath Uspenski Cathedral, one of Helsinki's most popular tourist sites, will be captured and channeled into the district heating network, a system of water-heated pipes used to warm homes in the Finnish capital."

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" The National Security Agency, whose job it is to protect national security systems, will soon break ground on a data center in Utah that's budgeted to cost $1.5 billion.

The budget document specifies green features.

Facility design goal will be to the highest LEED standard attainable within available resources and will include: sustainable site characteristics, water and energy efficiency, materials and resources criteria, and indoor environmental quality."

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Most data center managers keep their facilities much too cold -- as much as 15 percent too cold, according to a server expert at Intel.

In an article by Rik Myslewski published yesterday in The Register, Dylan Larson, Intel's director of server platform technology initiatives, explained last week that keeping data centers in the low 70s and high 60s leads to a significant amount of excess cooling, and wasted energy.

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A new, two-year associate's degree from the Metropolitan Community College in Omaha, Neb., is being touted as the first of its kind to give students an intensive focus on designing and managing green data centers.

The program was launched today in cooperation with IBM, and will offer students coursework on virtualization and server consolidation, energy efficiency, security and compliance skills

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Google (GOOG) has begun operating a data center in Belgium that has no chillers to support its cooling systems, a strategy that will improve its energy efficiency while making local weather forecasting a larger factor in its data center management

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We are finally starting to see all IT vendors realize that they need to be part of the solution. Server vendors were the first to recognize this, since the increase in chip power consumption and heat dissipation was the first obvious problem. However, all elements in the data center need to contribute to improved power and cooling metrics.

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