Much has been written about “big data,” but should we be asking whether our industry is missing the boat?

Read More

When the Steel ORCA team started planning, it was our intention of being the “Greenest Data Center on Earth,” and, as a data center/services company, we were in the enviable position of being unrestrained by established corporate policies, legacy designs, or outdated facilities.

Read More

"Snowtober” on the East Coast has raised many questions about the managerial reliability of several major utilities.
Read More

Jonathon G. Koomey’s recently released and highly publicized report, “Growth in Data Center Electricity Use: 2005 to 2010” is nothing like other reports that have warned that power consumption in data centers is out of control. In the past five years, we have seen article after article extrapolating from an earlier Koomey publication and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Report to Congress, suggesting that total U.S. data center energy consumption is now at 3 to 5 percent or more of total U.S. use.

Read More

Much has been said about the energy efficiency of higher three-phase alternating current (ac) voltages as well as direct current (dc) solutions for data centers.
Read More

Not every idea is a winner

Read More

Don’t forget the rack-level PDUs

Read More

Being sustainable means being aggressive and imaginative

Read More

Most people usually make most of their predications for next year at year’s end. This year, however, there are so many game changers this year I wanted to make my forecasts early in time to be incorporated into our plans and projects scheduled for 2011.

Read More

The green movement must examine its future

Read More