Wind Envy: Nebraskans Want Some Of Iowa’s Action

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After Facebook chose Iowa for its new data center, some Nebraskans are asking why the state is lagging so badly in developing its vast wind resource. Read more →

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Wind Power Draws Facebook To Iowa

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"An abundance of wind-generated power" is chief of among the reasons Facebook will build a new data center in Iowa, the company said. Read more →

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NREL Cools Cloud Computing Costs With Warm Water

The mechanical room under the ESIF building transfers excess server heat to keep the NREL offices and labs warm. Image by Dennis Schroeder via NREL.

The National Renewable Energy Lab is hoping to save $1 million in data-center energy costs by using a warm-water method to dissipate heat from petascale servers. Read more →

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Google Data Center To Get New Renewables From Duke

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Google will apparently get the clean energy it wants for an expanded North Carolina data center, as Duke Energy goes along with adding new renewable sources. Read more →

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Aussie Supercomputer Center To Use Geothermal Cooling

Drilling begins on the geothermal energy well to be used as coolant for the planned Pawsey Center. Image via CSIRO.

A plan to use groundwater as a geothermal coolant for an Australian supercomputer is being touted as a way to save on water use for major heat islands, such as data centers. Read more →

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Is Going Paperless A Google Greenwashing Scam?

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Less paper = more trees = happy Earth, right? Not according to the paper industry. Read more →

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10 Green Projects To Reboot Data Centers’ Reputation

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Here is a selection of 10 planned, existing or rebooted data centers that have made some impressive strides in reducing their carbon footprints. Read more →

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Microsoft Data Center Hooking Into Biogas Source

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Microsoft will build a small, experimental data center right at a Wyoming wasterwater treatment plant to take advantage of a ready supply of biogas. Read more →

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Wyoming Powers Up Supercomputer To Crunch The Numbers On Climate Change

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The 1.5 petaflop IBM computer can run an astonishing 1.5 quadrillion calculations per second, allowing scientists to build ever- more accurate climate models and predict future changes in climate and weather. Read more →

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Can HP & Intel Build The World’s Most Efficient Data Center?

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The US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory recently recruited two top IT companies to aid in its quest for a super efficient data center. Read more →

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