Tag Archive | Low-Carbon
Data Centers and Mount Sustainability
This year Ray Anderson, often called the “greenest CEO in America” has passed away. Mr. Anderson was the founder of Interface, one of the world’s largest producer of commercial carpet tiles. After 20 years, running his business in compliance with government regulations, he read in 1994 Paul Hawken’s book “The Ecology of Commerce,” which gave […]
Impact Australian roll out carbon tax on IT
This week the Australian parliament passed the Clean Energy bill, 2011 – the effect of which will be to introduce a carbon tax starting in July of 2012 as explained in the GreenMonk blog . The tax will start at 17 euro per tonne in 2012-2013 and will increase to 24.15 euro in 2013-2014 and 25.40 euro […]
Data centers, reducing energy usage by heating and distribution
In delivering computer process power and storage capacity there are apparently two opposite approaches, the cloud computing mega data center “bigger is better” and the local nano data center “small is beautiful”. The current “bigger is better” model of cloud computing leads, although shifted from customer to supplier, still to enormous capital expenditures, problems in […]
Lefdal mines: green mineral went out green data center goes in
According to a press release of the Norwegian government, IBM and Lefdal mines have agreed on a memorandum of understanding to develop Lefdal Mine in Nordfjord, Sogn og Fjordane as one of the largest and leading centers for green data storage in Europe. “Lefdal mines is one of several in Norway, which has strongly committed […]
Transparency of carbon footprint cloud computing
IT services are delivered as a black box from the cloud making carbon footprint assessment difficult. Now the Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA) is coming with a usage model that is designed to ensure organizations can predict CO2 emissions and track actual emissions through technical capabilities instituted by providers of cloud services. This model must […]
Greener IT Can Form a Solid Base For a Low-Carbon Society
Precisely a year a go we launched the book Greening IT in print and online (free to download). And if I may say so, the book is still worth the effort of reading. The book aims at promoting awareness of the potential of Greening IT, such as Smart Grid, Cloud Computing, Thin Clients and Greening […]
Disclosure carbon reduction targets of IT Services firms
Sustainable business analyst firm Verdantix carried out a survey to the carbon reduction strategy of the IT services sector. The report reveals the carbon reduction targets and strategies for the 14 largest global IT systems integrators. Analysis shows a minimal link between IT services providers’ energy use and their carbon targets, with less than […]
Data Centres Europe 2011 Nice
Last week I attended Datacentres Europe 2011 that was held at 5-6 May 2011 in Acropolis, Nice, France and organized by Broadgroup. In its seventh edition, this European summit is for senior IT executives, analysts and vendors to network, discuss and learn about the latest developments in data centers. A great event, featuring 85 speakers with […]
Tidal Waves for a data center, follow up
Last year tidal turbine maker Atlantis Resources Corporation and Internet Villages International partnered to build the first tidal-powered data center (Blue Data Center). The data center must be powered by the Pentland Firth waters. But there were a number of problems. Atlantis Resources Corporation recently reported that new rotor blades almost ready for its giant, AK1000, […]
Greening your networks by reducing networking energy use
Climate Savers Computing Initiative launched a new industry workgroup that will develop energy efficiency targets and best practices for networking technologies. This can be a very interesting initiative to get more insight in the discussion about how does cloud computing energy consumption compare with conventional computing. The role of the network in terms of cloud […]
