http://www.quinstreet.com Wed, 29 Feb 2012 20:50:02 +0100 en-us Copyright 2012 QuinStreet, Inc. http://blog.enterpriseitplanet.com/green/blog/2011/04/facebook-built.html Facebook is no stranger to controversy, from its ever-shifting privacy policies to its super-secret (and super-lucrative) upcoming IPO. In data center design and deployment, it's run into rough waters over its new data center in Pineville, Oregon, which it built... Fri, 08 Apr 2011 04:00:00 +0100 http://blog.enterpriseitplanet.com/green/blog/2011/04/house-passes-bi.html What a difference two years can make! It was in the summer of 2009 that the House of Representatives, in firm control of the Democrats, passed ACES, a far sweeping climate change bill that would have created a cap on... Fri, 08 Apr 2011 04:00:00 +0100 http://blog.enterpriseitplanet.com/green/blog/2011/02/greenpeace-ratc.html Facebook continues to be the target of a campaign by environmentalists at Greenpeace, who are royally upset at the social media giant's new data center being built in Oregon. In spite of claims by Facebook that the data center is... Fri, 25 Feb 2011 05:00:00 +0100 http://blog.enterpriseitplanet.com/green/blog/2011/02/fujitsus-eco-mo.html As anyone who's spent time in Washington knows, it's not the crime that matters, it's the coverup. I was reminded of this lesson recently as I followed a story that's been trending upwards in the blogosphere about Green IT marketing.... Tue, 22 Feb 2011 05:00:00 +0100 http://blog.enterpriseitplanet.com/green/blog/2011/02/us-bank-deposit.html U.S. Bank, one of the country's largest financial services firms, has been on a hunt recently for energy savings and carbon reductions. Like a lot of companies, the savings are coming from physical plant audits, which have resulted in programmable... Tue, 22 Feb 2011 05:00:00 +0100 http://blog.enterpriseitplanet.com/green/blog/2011/02/ready-fire-aim.html When the GOP won back control of the House of Representatives last November, there was a lot of collective breath-holding to see what would happen to the White House's signature efforts to curtail greenhouse gasses such as carbon. Last week,... Mon, 14 Feb 2011 05:00:00 +0100 http://blog.enterpriseitplanet.com/green/blog/2011/02/monday-news-rou-90.html Monday News Roundup Feb 1, 2011 THE world's largest carrier-neutral data centre company, Equinix Inc, will use recycled Newater to cool the new 'green' data centre (DC) that it is building in Singapore. As reported earlier, the company is investing... Tue, 01 Feb 2011 05:00:00 +0100 http://blog.enterpriseitplanet.com/green/blog/2011/01/climate-czar-de.html Of the many things that President Obama did when he first assumed office, one that particularly rankled Republicans was his appointment of "czars," to head specific policy initiatives. These positions are outside of his normal Cabinet-level posts, and therefore did... Sun, 30 Jan 2011 05:00:00 +0100 http://blog.enterpriseitplanet.com/green/blog/2011/01/what-does-sotu.html On Tuesday night, President Obama laid out his agenda for the coming year in the annual State of the Union speech. The speech has been widely praised in the media, and polls seem to indicate that the public was similarly... Thu, 27 Jan 2011 05:00:00 +0100 http://blog.enterpriseitplanet.com/green/blog/2011/01/carbon-permit-t.html The European Trading Scheme (ETS) is supposed to be the pride and joy of the European Union's carbon cap and trade scheme. The scheme started in 2005 and reached an impressive trading volume of 80 billion Euros last year. The... Sun, 23 Jan 2011 05:00:00 +0100 http://blog.enterpriseitplanet.com/green/blog/2011/01/ge-invests-520.html If you had any doubt that green IT would continue to be a hotbed of activity in 2011 due to legislative quagmires, GE laid some of those doubts to rest this week by announcing it was spending $520 million to... Thu, 20 Jan 2011 05:00:00 +0100 http://blog.enterpriseitplanet.com/green/blog/2011/01/cea-releases-20.html Many readers know the Consumer Electronics Association as the industry group that sponsors the annual CES show in Las Vegas, where many of the year's latest and hottest products and services in the $170 billion consumer electronics industry are unveiled.... Fri, 14 Jan 2011 05:00:00 +0100 http://blog.enterpriseitplanet.com/green/blog/2011/01/bank-shows-how.html Very few data center operators have the budget to build an entirely new data center every few years. In fact, the vast majority of data centers are several years old and were therefore built at a time when few people... Thu, 13 Jan 2011 05:00:00 +0100 http://blog.enterpriseitplanet.com/green/blog/2011/01/move-to-delay-e.html The passing of power from Democrats to Republicans in the House of Representatives means that there is no chance of comprehensive energy legislation passing in the next two years, until the next general election. Environmentalists have more to deal with... Mon, 10 Jan 2011 05:00:00 +0100 http://blog.enterpriseitplanet.com/green/blog/2011/01/carbon-regulati.html 2010 was supposed to be the year that the U.S. got serious about carbon emissions and the global warming it supposedly causes. A serious attack on carbon emissions, plus a carbon cap-and-trade scheme, would have created a limit on carbon... Thu, 06 Jan 2011 05:00:00 +0100 http://blog.enterpriseitplanet.com/green/blog/2011/01/spanish-utility.html Like most renewable energies, solar faces a daunting array of challenges before it can be adopted widely. Distribution challenges in an antiquated grid make it hard to move solar-generated electricity from the desert Southwest, where sun is abundant, to the... Sun, 02 Jan 2011 05:00:00 +0100 http://blog.enterpriseitplanet.com/green/blog/2010/12/google-celebrat.html As 2010 draws to a close, few Green IT stories stand out as much as Google's. As much as Google can be criticized for its secrecy and failure to be completely transparent about its data center operations (such as how... Wed, 29 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 http://blog.enterpriseitplanet.com/green/blog/2010/12/epa-moves-forwa-1.html It's a little odd to talk about global warming when it seems like an icebox in much of the world, with another snowstorm pummeling the East Coast, but in fact the cold weather is a sign of climate change. As... Mon, 27 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 http://blog.enterpriseitplanet.com/green/blog/2010/12/server-farm-rea.html Last month, Red Sea Group (RSG), a real investment development company, launched Server Farm Realty to develop data centers, starting with one in Silicon Valley and another in Washington state. The data centers are designed to achieve some of the... Sat, 25 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 http://blog.enterpriseitplanet.com/green/blog/2010/12/california-form.html After surviving a legal challenge at the ballot box through a oil-industry funded recall initiative in November that it survived with a surprisingly wide margin, California's AB 32, the nation's widest-ranging carbon cap-and-trade plan, is about to be implemented. On... Sun, 19 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 http://blog.enterpriseitplanet.com/green/blog/2010/12/post-cancun-wha.html Now that the Cancun Agreements have moved the world's countries closer to some agreement on technical assistance, financial aid, and target-setting for carbon emissions reductions, one question on a lot of people's minds is what happens next to the Kyoto... Wed, 15 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 http://blog.enterpriseitplanet.com/green/blog/2010/12/miracle-in-canc.html Perhaps President Obama should have just stayed home rather than attend the disastrous Copenhagen conference a year ago. That appears to be the lesson emerging out of Cancun this weekend, where UN climate change negotiators, attempting to rescue the international... Mon, 13 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 http://blog.enterpriseitplanet.com/green/blog/2010/12/supreme-court-a.html Legislative action to rein in carbon emissions may have slowed for now, but several important court cases continue to wind their way through the justice system that may impact carbon emissions by a broad sector of industry, even the IT... Thu, 09 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 http://blog.enterpriseitplanet.com/green/blog/2010/12/the-green-grid-4.html The Green Grid is a global consortium of IT companies and professionals seeking to improve energy efficiency in data centers. Membership includes virtually all the names, big and small, in Green IT, from Google to Microsoft to Oracle to Hitachi... Tue, 07 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 http://blog.enterpriseitplanet.com/green/blog/2010/12/us-plays-dirty.html It was only a matter of time before the Wikileaks scandal that is engulfing the diplomatic world began to have an effect on climate change negotiations over how to address carbon emissions and global warming. After all, the documents Wikileaks... Mon, 06 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100