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The Greenpeace Campaign to Keep Facebook’s Oregon Data Center Off Coal Fuel
TopNews New Zealand With the campaign catching on, Greenpeace International’s Executive Director Kumi Naidoo warned Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in a Wednesday letter that in case the company chooses to overlook the environmental effects of its actions, it will put at stake not only its reputation, but also its financial health. Topics: Europe, data center, [...]
Australia Utilities Warn of Energy Price Hike
DataCenterDynamics Power prices could be about to increase dramatically in Australia, according to the boss of Origin Energy, one of the nation’s largest energy retailers. Origin Energy managing director Grant King told The Australian newspaper he thought the mandatory renewable energy target being introduced by the government and network spending would drive up the costs. [...]
Taiwan Telecoms Giant Considers Accelerating Cloud Plans
DataCenterDynamics Taiwan’s second largest telecoms company, Chunghwa Telecom Co, said it could construct a second cloud computing data center in Changhua County, wester Taiwan. The company told the Taipei times the new data center could end up costing up to 15 percent of its annual revenue – it had originally planned on investing 10 percent [...]
Equinix to Build New $60m Hong Kong Data Center
DataCenterDynamics Global provider of retail colocation services Equinix announced a plan to build a second data center in Hong Kong, as the company’s first facility on the island has become more than two-thirds occupied. Topics: data center, Hong Kong, telecom
DC Power Proof-of-Concept Launched in Containerized Data Center in US
DataCenterNews This is a unique approach to powering servers, whose power supplies have traditionally accepted Alternating-Current electricity. Proponents of feeding DC power to servers argue that this approach will substantially increase energy efficiency in data centers because it eliminates multiple conversion steps electricity has to go through in a traditional system before it reaches the [...]
More Than Half of Australia’s Data Center Managers Plan to Spend
DataCenterNews IT vendor Stulz said a survey conducted at the recent Data Center Strategics conference in Sydney shows that roughly 60% of data center managers in Australia plan to increase their infrastructure spend within the next year. Topics: data center, Australia, Sydney, telecom
HP CEO Hurd Fired for ‘Inappropriate Conduct’
DataCenter Dynamics Mark Hurd has resigned from his position as chairman and CEO of the global IT giant HP, following an investigation into accusations of sexual harassment by a former contractor. An internal investigation did not find factual evidence for the accusations but did unveil other “inappropriate conduct.” According to a letter sent to HP [...]
Australian State Goes On Data Center Hunt
DataCenter Dynamics Western Australia’s health body is on the search for new primary and secondary data centers under plans to overhaul its managed central computing services, according to a report done by Computerworld, Australia, this week. Western Australia Health will also be considering data center management services, disaster recovery services, project services and relocation services [...]
EchoStar to Build New Data Center Near Cheyenne Broadcast Facility
DataCenter Dynamics Following an extensive search for an appropriate location for its new 77,000 sq ft data center, EchoStar Broadcasting Corp. decided to build the facility near its existing satellite uplink and broadcast center in Cheyenne Business Park, east of Cheyenne, Wyo. Topics: EchoStar, telecom, data center
GE Invests in Green Data Center Start-Up
New York Times G.E. says it will invest part of a $5 million round into SynapSense, a start-up launched by former Intel exec Peter Van Deventer and UC Davis computer science professor Raju Pandey that makes wireless sensor technology and software to monitor and reduce power usage and cooling in data centers. Topics: telecom, data [...]
Twitter Building A New Data Center To Kill Off Fail Whale
San Francisco Chronicle Later this year, Twitter will move its technical operations to a brand new data center in Salt Lake City, the company announced last night. Up until now, Twitter’s service has been hosted by NTT America. Twitter says that having dedicated data centers will give it “the flexibility to more quickly make adjustments [...]
How 10,000 Cows Can Power 1 MW Data Centre
Rediff Cows and data centres may seem unnatural partners. However, researchers at HP Labs argue that both entities can be aligned to create a sustainable lifecycle. Topics: telecom, data centre
Rackspace Goes Open Source With Cloud Platform
CNET Data center and cloud infrastructure service provider Rackspace is expected to announce Monday the release of a new open-source offering that will allow users to build and launch their own internal and hosted clouds. Topics: telecom, open source, data center
Virtualization No Cure-all for Data Center Energy Crunch
PC World Virtualization gave data center managers some breathing room in their battle against rising energy use, but more changes are needed to keep pace with the demands of IT departments, speakers at an industry conference said Friday. Topics: data center, telecom
Telehouse Opens New Data Center in China
DataCenterNews Data center service provider Telehouse America has expanded its presence in China by opening a new data center in Shanghai. The company launched its 39th data center worldwide by partnering with a Chinese company Shanghai Data Solution. Topics: telecom, data center, China
Inside the Equinix San Jose Data Centre
iT News The new International Business Exchange (IBX) data centre, located adjacent to the company’s flagship SV1 facility, will cost approximately US$145 million to construct. iTnews understands that several variations to the standard non-raised floor in a hot/cold aisle configuration that is a staple of Equinix centres globally are under consideration for SV5 but that [...]
County Works with INX to Develop Virtual Private Data Center
TMCnet This move to a virtual private data center was completed in an effort to lower costs, reduce power usage and increase availability. Denton County was attracted to the idea of virtualizing their remaining physical servers and as anticipating increased capabilities offered by VMware’s vSphere. Topics: 911, 3G, telecom, data center
Data Center Power Outage Knocks Down All Wikimedia Sites
DataCenter News A Wikimedia Foundation data center in Tampa, Fla., experienced a power failure early Monday morning, bringing down every online property of the famous non-profit provider of the user-contributed and user-edited online encyclopedia Wikipedia. The foundation uses two data center providers in Florida: Switch and Data (now owned by Equinix) and Hostway. Topics: outage, [...]
ancotel GmbH Enters US Market By Acquisition of Long Island Carrier Hotel
DataCenter Dynamics A major European carrier-hotel operator has entered the US market by acquiring a large facility on the east coast. The building that houses the Long Island Data and Recovery Center in Westbury, N.Y., now belongs to Frankfurt, Germany-based ancotel GmbH. Topics: North America, telecom, carrier, data center, Europe
ViaWest Expanding Three Data Centers In Utah
DataCenter News Data center service provider ViaWest, which recently underwent acquisition by Oak Hill Capital Partners, is planning to expand its three data centers in Salt Lake City, Utah, area by a total of about 14,000 sq ft. The company has already started construction, expecting to complete the expansion in the fourth quarter. Topics: Utah, [...]
