fortunedatacenters.com - 4/29/2009
—
Fortune Data Centers develops, operates, and owns premium data centers. Our facilities are designed and managed to provide best in class reliability and total value for large scale deployments of mission critical applications. Each property meets or exceeds the toughest industry standards for ...
Comments
Blog Reactions
Concrete Floors Equal Data Center Power Savings
Greentech Media: All Content —
Fortune Data Centers says its newly opened data center in San Jose, Calif. could be among the most energy efficient in Silicon Valley in part because it bucks one of the industry's most pervasive architectural trends. That's the "raised floor" that is synonymous with data centers around the country. But Fortune's new data center uses concrete slab floors, and that saves a lot of money on energy costs, said Fortune CEO John Sheputis. "It's common sense," he said Tuesday. "Pushing cold air down under a floor and then pushing it back up to cool data centers really requires a lot ...
Fortune Data Centers Starts Up Greener Operations in Silicon Valley
TreeHugger —
Photo via Fortune Data Centers
Fortune Data Centers is commencing operations in a new greener facility in San Jose, California. The facility emphasizes a better way to cool down hot servers, giving the center a Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) rating of 1.37 - pretty close to rivaling that of Microsoft and Google who are duking it out for best efficiency ratings. ... ...
Facebook Grabs for Greener Data Centers
Earth2Tech —
... Green credentials are nice and all, but cost is a key consideration for Facebook. Data center “landlords” like Fortune allow firms to have their new server racks populated and fully operational in months versus the year or two it takes to complete new construction — a strategy that helps Facebook keep pace with the growing demands on its IT resources, as Miller notes. For Fortune Data Centers, landing a high profile tenant like Facebook is a feather in its cap and a way to help lure similar, eco-minded businesses. ...
Spectrum Health, Fortune Data Centers Go for the LEED Gold
Environmental Leader —
... energy through the use of a high-performance building envelope, heat recovery, HVAC, and lighting design and controls. The facility also reduced urban heat island effect through the use of underground parking, reflective roofing and vegetated roof areas, as well as reduced its impact on the environment through use of regional products and products containing recycled content. The project also used materials that minimize emissions of indoor air contaminants. Also going for the Gold, Fortune Data Centers earned LEED Gold certification for its Silicon Valley facility. The data ...
Related Content
Advanced Data Centers / Home
adatacenters.com 1/16/2009 — Advanced Data Centers develops and operates energy efficient data centers to serve corporate customers. Teaming with leading design experts in the industry that have built nearly 500 data centers, ADC provides solutions to meet the growing ...
EU Officials to Data Centers: Get Greener!
treehugger.com 11/26/2008 —
Photo via Robert Scoble
The European Commission has released a set of green goals for IT managers. The goals are intended to help data centers put in place the best practices possible for energy efficiency as they expand and upgrade. Simple ...
Enterprise Sustainability and Greening Data Centers
triplepundit.com 24 days ago — By Dr. Zen Kishimoto, Principal Analyst, Alta Terra Research Network
Some years ago, energy was cheap. Few people in corporations paid attention to how much energy was consumed company wide, much less in data centers. More recently, however, several ...
Advanced Data Centers Receives Utilities Reward
environmentalleader.com 1/19/2009 — Advanced Data Centers (ADC) has announced that it has been rewarded by the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) for their McClellan Park wholesale data center, which focuses on energy efficiency. The reward, called “Savings by ...
Facebook Grabs for Greener Data Centers
earth2tech.com 27 days ago — Facebook’s 300 million users, logging 8 billion minutes per day on the site , leave the social network with a massive — and growing — appetite for data center real estate, and energy bills to match. According to Richard Miller at Data Center Knowledge, Facebook has just ...
Spectrum Health, Fortune Data Centers Go for the LEED Gold
environmentalleader.com 24 days ago — Businesses across all sectors including health care, manufacturing and information technology (IT) are seeking the coveted LEED certification to ensure that their new buildings meet the highest of environmental standards. Some of the most recent ...
Most Efficient Data Center - The One That’s Not Built
environmentalleader.com 11/13/2008 — Kenneth Brill, executive director of the Uptime Institute, told the New York Times that companies should build fewer data centers during tough times, and that the most efficient data center is the one that a company decides it doesn’t need to ...
New Data Center Model Reduces Energy Use Up To 50%
environmentalleader.com 5/30/2009 — A new data center at Syracuse University will be among the world’s most efficient, using half as much energy as a typical data center.
The $12.4 million, 6,000-square-foot data center is a joint project between Syracuse University, IBM and the ...
Nuclear Power Plant to Be Converted to Green Data Center
treehugger.com 11/12/2008 —
Photo via 1&1
A green data center is going to get a new, unlikely home in Hanau, Germany. 1&1 has chosen a never-used nuclear fuel facility as its newest location for an enormous data center, which will be one of Europe’s largest.
The center ...
Follow EarthBlips on Twitter
