Switch says all data centers, clients on green power Las Vegas Review-Journal, January 5, 2016. Image credit: The Networking Nerd The data storage company Switch has announced that as of Jan. 1, all of its SUPERNAP data centers and its more than 1,000 clients who are co-located at their facilities were powered by 100 percent…
Web-Scale Data Operators Trying to Deliver on Carbon-Neutrality Commitments
Cleaning Up Data Center Power is Dirty Work Data Center Knowledge, July 20, 2015. Image credit: Arthur Caranta Just this month, Facebook announced a 200 MW wind-power contract for its upcoming Texas data center, and Amazon said it had invested in a wind farm of similar capacity in North Carolina to address the energy use of…
Codes & Standards
Seattle Couples Energy Code Requirements High Performance Incentives
With the 2012 Seattle Energy Code (SEC) that came into effect December 2013, building owners in Seattle were given the opportunity to push energy performance in their buildings by using an innovative provision called the ”target performance path.”
Renewables
Boeing Factory to Replace Fossil-fuel Power with RECs
Boeing Co. says it will offset electricity from coal and other fuels by paying a premium to buy wind power credits tied to the Bellevue-based utility’s Wild Horse Wind and Solar Facility near Ellensburg.