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Yahoo! Dropping Carbon Offsets for Greener Data Centers
Environmental Leader —
July 1, 2009 Yahoo! Dropping Carbon Offsets for Greener Data Centers yahoogreen Yahoo’s co-founder David Filo, together with New York Governor David Paterson and Senator Chuck Schumer, announced plans to build the greenest and most energy-efficient data centers in the world. Filo said in his blog that keeping Yahoo! running smoothly for more than 500 million people around the world calls for a lot of server power. As a result, the company wants to become a leader in designing and building data centers that are environmentally sustainable. To reduce its carbon footprint, ...
Yahoo! Says Yes to Greener Data Center, Yes to Renewable Energy, No to Carbon Offsets
TreeHugger —
Yahoo! has announced that Lockport, New York will be the home to Yahoo!'s latest data center. The highlights include: * Powered predominantly by renewable hydroelectric power from Niagara Falls * 90% of the energy going to the data center will power the servers (most data centers use 50% or less of their total electricity consumption on servers, with the rest going to the facility for things like cooling; Yahoo! will be using 100% outside air to cool the servers) * A goal of Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) of 1.1 or better (1.1 would top the best ratings we've seen so far, with ...
Yahoo Greening Up Their Data Centers
GoodCleanTech —
... before, Yahoo claims that what they will build will be the "greenest, most energy-efficient data centers in the world." ...
Eco Tech: World’s most efficient data center to be powered by Niagara Falls
Ecofriend —
... Yahoo has announced that they’re planning to get hydroelectricity generated by Niagara Falls to power its data center. The plan is to source about 90% of the data center’s energy demand from clean hydroelectricity. Other than green power, the data center will be made to resemble chicken coop, and use 100% natural ventilation to keep the servers from burning. ...
Why Yahoo Won’t Buy Carbon Offsets Anymore
Triple Pundit: People, Planet, Profit —
During a press conference last week, Yahoo’s co-founder David Filo announced plans to build energy efficient data centers in New York. Standing by his side was New York Governor David Patterson and Senator Chuck Schumer. Filo also announced Yahoo would not be investing in carbon offsets anymore. According to a blog post by Filo, data centers represent the majority of Yahoo’s energy consumption.
Yahoo’s New York data centers will receive 90 percent of its power from hydroelectric power from Niagara Falls. The data center it plans to build “will have an annualized average ...
Yahoo Serving up greener data centers
Peak Energy —
Yahoo has a blog post on their new green data centre - Serving up greener data centers. This morning, at a press conference in Buffalo, New York, with New York Governor David Paterson and Senator Chuck Schumer, we took another big step forward in addressing climate change. We announced plans to build one of the greenest, most energy-efficient data centers in the world. This is significant because data centers represent the majority of our energy consumption. Keeping Yahoo! running smoothly for more than 500 million people around the world calls for a lot of ...
Google vs. Yahoo: The Changing Face of “Carbon Neutral”
Earth2Tech —
... For Yahoo, carbon offsets are out. The company announced last week that it will stop buying offsets for its operations, opting instead to focus on energy efficiency — decreasing the “average electricity consumption and greenhouse gas emissions” from the company’s data centers, as Yahoo co-founder David Filo explains on the company blog. “We believe creating highly-efficient data centers will have a greater long-term, direct impact on the environment and gives us the best opportunity to play a leadership role in addressing climate change.” ...
Yahoo! Building Incredibly Energy Efficient Data Center
Daily Greenz, the Blog from Greenzer.com —
... and Google , who tend to dominate news headlines and our computer use, but the new data center that Yahoo! is building in New York deserves plenty of attention (and could probably teach those other companies a thing or two about getting greener). The data center will be located in Lockport, New York and will be one of the greenest in the world , with most of the energy coming from ...
Using the Weather to Cool Data Centers
Green Inc. —
... resulting in greater efficiencies. In June, Yahoo announced that it would locate a data center in Buffalo , to take advantage of the “micro-climate,” to cool the servers entirely with outside air — suggesting that, at least as it relates to data centers, the Cold Belt has a competitive advantage over sunnier climes. And Google has a data center in Belgium where, according to Niki Fenwick, a spokeswoman, “the local climate allows us to efficiently cool the data center without needing to use electricity to power chillers.” She noted, however, that “not all Google data centers ...
Responsible Travel thinks offsets not so responsible after all
Super Eco News Feed —
... Responsible Travel ends its seven-year relationship with offsets as other companies are still climbing on board. United Airlines became the latest American airline to add an offset program this summer. Other organizations, from Yahoo to the United States ...
