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How Close Are We to a 100% Clean Energy Economy?
The prospect of driving home in an electric, selfdriving car to a house powered by solar energy
may seem like an unrealistic daydream, but trends in the industry suggest that this may not be
the case. Smart cities, renewable energypowered homes, electric and selfdriving cars are all
technologies that exist today, but they are just distributed and not ready to scale. However,
clean energy technologies are attracting significant investment $310 billion in 2014 – and
organizations continue to demonstrate their commitment to a clean energy economy with
investment in LED lighting, solar, wind, and more.
This month we feature articles, like creating a data center heat recovery system, that remind
us that small investments into energy conservation made locally have tremendous impact on
our country’s effort to move beyond fossil fuels.
Todd Boucher, Principal
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May 2016 | Vol. 2, Issue 5
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More Acquisition Action Ahead for the Data Center Sector Data Center Frontier
Today we continue our Data Center Executive Roundtable, a quarterly feature showcasing theinsights of thought leaders on the state of the data center industry, and where it is headed. Intoday’s discussion, our panel of experienced data center executives – Chris Crosby of CompassDatacenters, Chris Sharp of Digital Realty Trust, Mark Wachtmann of IO, Jeff Klaus of IntelDCM and Michael Custer of Chatsworth Products – will examine the outlook for mergers andacquisitions in the data center sector. The conversation is moderated by Rich Miller, the founderand editor of Data Center Frontier.
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Going Green with Data Center Heat Recovery LEDG
Watch the Video Quote of the Month
"Failure is the opportunity to begin again moreintelligently." Henry Ford
In Case You Missed Market Insights
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Technology
How a Modular Data Center Adds Flexibility, IT Capacityto K12 | EdTechTech Execs Ask Congress for $250M to Teach Kids toCode | Business Insider Verne Global Applies Hybrid Approach to Power Design|Data Center FrontierExecutive Round Table: Cloud Trends 2016 | Data CenterFrontierMicrosoft Brings "Internet of Things" to Jet Engines| GeekWire.com Yahoo's Suitors Uncover Few Financial Details | New YorkTimesAmazing Big Data at NASA | Forbes Meet the New Ford, A Silicone Valley Software Company
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Data center heat recovery is an attractive option for data centers of all sizesbecause it transforms the data center from an energy consumer into an energyproducer.
Data center customers today care about energy efficiency and minimizing the environmentalimpact of their data center operations. There are various ways to maximize the efficiency of adata center design with efficient cooling technologies,economizer strategies (i.e. “freecooling”), high voltage power distribution, and much more. However, some customers arelooking to go beyond efficient design practices inside their data center and inquire about theability of reusing data center waste heat for other purposes in their facility.
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Customers | NPRSeries of Issues Cause Google Cloud Outage |Datacenter Dynamics
Largest Coal Company Files Bankruptcy | CNN Verizon to Replace Copper with Fiber Optic in Boston |
computerworld.com Amazon appoints cloud CEO promises $10bn Cloud |
Datacenter Dynamics
Fast Growing Data Center Sector Bridges Corporate Networks and Cloud Wall Street Journal
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Companies, looking to gain the best performance from the cloud, are placing a higher value on reducing the physical distance between their servers and those of
their cloud providers. Colocation data centers, where their machines share space, have emerged as an important factor in enterprise cloud strategy.
For CIOs, a major benefit of colocation is that the proximity to cloud providers makes connections faster. Equinix Inc., the market’s largest colocation firm by
revenue, says it provides less than 10 milliseconds of latency to over 90% of the population of North America and Europe.
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What You Need to Know About Lithium Ion Batteries in Your Data Center LEDG
As more enterprises adopt more cloud for important applications, they’re finding they’re dealing with new types of relationships, unlike anything they’ve
encountered before. Unlike software purchases in the past, there’s no longer an upfront installation, followed by tech support as needed. Instead, the relationship
is more akin to a marriage in which the spouses not only live together, but also work together all day long — 24×7. That means a highly codependent
relationship. So cloud consumers need to expect their providers to have wellfunctioning data centers, running in top form at all times.
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Major League Baseball opens with LEDs in San Diego and Arlington LEDs Magazine
New LED sports lighting projects extend the energy savings, control, and special effects capabilities of SSL to America’s Pastime.
Musco Lighting and Eaton’s Ephesus Lighting each have announced new highprofile, sportsvenue, LEDbased lighting projects that came to light with the dawnof the 2016 Major League Baseball season. Petco Park, home of the San Diego Padres in San Diego, CA, has the new Musco Lighting installation. Globe Life Park,home of the Texas Rangers in Arlington, TX, has the new Ephesus Lighting installation. In both cases,the solidstate lighting (SSL) has raised light levels andslashed energy usage while DMXbased controls enable the teams’ production crews to generate special effects for the fans.
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Microsoft Moves Away From Data Center Containers Data Center Knowledge
Google has taken the container route for building out data center capacity in the past but eventually decided against it. Now, Microsoft has also found thatcontainers just aren’t the best way for it to scale.The Redmond, Washingtonbased giant went through multiple generations of data center containers, fromstandard shipping containers it stacked twohigh at its Chicago data center years ago to customdesigned ITPACs, which it had been deploying in data centersfrom Quincy, Washington, to Boydton, Virginia, since 2010.
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GreenGrid Seeking Clarity Following ASHRAE PUE Agitation
Data Center Knowledge
No, PUE is not dead. It’s alive and well, and the fact that an ASHRAE committee backed away from using a version of PUE in the new data center efficiency
standard that’s currently in the works hasn’t changed that.
The Green Grid Association, the data center industry group that championed the most widely used data center energy efficiency metric, has found itself once
again in the position of having to defend the metric’s viability after the ASHRAE committee struck PUE from an earlier draft of the standard.
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White Paper: Evaluating LED Lighting Solutions LEDG
Investing in LED lighting solutions offer more than longterm energy savings.
The rapid evolution of LED lighting solutions and ‘intelligent control’ technology has significantly impacted the global lighting market. By 2020, LED lightingsolutions are expected to occupy 70% of the $100 billion lighting industry. The continued investment in LED lighting solutions and intelligent controls has forcedthe number of available LED lighting solutions for commercial, industrial and institutional applications to rise dramatically. Although this increased supply ofproducts has helped reduce the cost of LED lighting solutions, the vast number of options available has made the process of evaluating LED lighting and controlsmore challenging.
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