FOSTER CITY, Calif. - Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), a global provider of data center, announced today that its SV2 International Business Exchange ™ (IBX ®) data center has earned the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Certification from the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC). The last accreditation extends global leadership in Equinix energy performance, [...]

The Green Grid (www.thegreengrid.org) announced Thursday that it has introduced new tools and new industry alliances announced third annual week of The Green Grid Technical Forum and Members of the meeting.
In January, the Green Grid opens registration for the technical forum, being held this week in San Jose.
The Green Grid shown to attendees of the [...]

3Com Corporation (Nasdaq: COMS) today officially announced that H3C Miercom ® S12508 data center switch and its center of H3C ® S5820X top-of-rack switch industry first product data centers to receive “green certification Miercom ™” designation . The test confirmed that Miercom H3C switches are designed to provide enterprise customers with superior performance, scale and [...]

Environmental considerations are helping to drive business decisions in the data center hosting SkGold. In a measure to save energy and protect the environment, the company is pleased to announce that its data center has implemented new practices, “green” and procedures.
The data center is hosting SkGold address energy problems associated with greenhouse gases and global [...]

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has recognized web host 1 & 1 Internet (www.1and1.com) for its Lenexa, Kansas Data Center for the annual purchase of 17.5 million kilowatt hours of green electricity.
According 1and1 Wednesday’s announcement, the EPA has appointed Lenexa installing green energy partner, marking the company’s next step in its efforts to protect the [...]

1 & 1 Internet, Inc., host the world’s largest known web servers, announced today that its Lenexa, Kansas data center has been recognized by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as a green energy partner for the annual purchase of 17.5 million kilowatt - hour (kWh) of green power (electricity generated from environmentally preferable renewable [...]

Provider California utility PG & E (www.pge.com) will begin offering financial incentives for data centers in California who purchase servers accredited with the qualification of Energy Environmental Protection Agency of the Star, the utility, said Thursday on data from the Silicon Valley Leadership Group Energy Efficiency Center at the Summit Sunnyvale, California.
Mark Bramfitt, principal program [...]

The Green Grid (www.thegreengrid.org), an international IT companies working to improve energy efficiency in data centers, announced Friday it has launched new tools and reports to help business leaders and centers global data to improve efficiency in their operations.
The announcement follows the launch of the new online tool from The Green Grid and maps, earlier [...]

Operator of European data center EvoSwitch (www.evoswitch.com) said Tuesday it has signed the Code of Conduct on the efficiency of data centers energy.
European data centers that have signed this agreement are obliged to reduce its energy consumption by 20 percent by 2020.
EvoSwitch says it “substantially exceeds” guidelines for energy conservation as outlined in the Code [...]

The conversion of waste landfills filling the world with biofuels may be the answer to both the growing energy crisis and to address carbon emissions, say scientists in Singapore and Switzerland. A new study published in Global Change Biology: Bioenergy, reveals how to replace petrol with biofuels processed from waste could reduce global carbon emissions [...]

U.S. chief Jon Wellinghoff network is promoting energy saving long term costs for electric cars, saying that the vehicles could earn $ 1,500 a year paybacks for their owners when their batteries are connected to the mains.
While electric cars provided to the U.S. market in the coming years are likely to carry heavier price tags [...]

Pulse Data Center Inc. (DCP), today announced it has partnered with the Silicon Valley Leadership Group (SVLG) to participate in the 2009 Data Center Energy Efficiency (DCEE) summit held on the campus of NetApp in Sunnyvale , California on 15 October 2009.
The 2009 Summit SVLG DCEE project is based on data center demonstration to show [...]

BCS British Organization (www.bcs.org) said Monday it has launched a new Green IT qualification (www.bcs.org / GreenIT) designed to help IT professionals and businesses to obtain a thorough understanding of the environmental issues around IT.
After a successful test run three months in the UK with learning supplier of quality control services, BCS’s Foundation Certificate in [...]

The telecommunications provider NTT America (www.nttamerica.com) announced Wednesday that its data center in Ashburn, Northern Virginia has earned a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Gold Certification from the U.S. Green Building Council (www.usgbc.org).
LEED is a rating system for green building developed by the USGBC and is a benchmark nationally recognized for design, construction and [...]