Data Center

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Facebook launches live efficiency dashboard – touts green credentials

Facebook has launched a new dashboard that lets users monitor the efficiency of data centers in near real time.

Color-coded pipes for the cooling system, and a G-Bike for employees to get around the facility

Telecommunications

A look inside Google's data centers

Google has created a website that provides a glimpse into the other-worldly looks of its eco-friendly data centers.

Google data center PUE measurement boundaries

Environment

Google builds on green credentials with new data center in Finland

Google has been working to make its data centers as green as possible.

Data center operator Interxion has installed five Podtime sleeping pods at its London data center campus to help maintain staffing levels during the upcoming Olympics

Good Thinking

Asleep on the job to beat London Olympic gridlock

Data center operator Interxion has installed five Podtime sleeping pods at its London data center campus to help maintain staffing levels during the upcoming Olympics.

Apple's Maiden data center already boasts a white cool-roof and is set to add the largest end user-owned, onsite solar array in the U.S.

Environment

Apple to build largest end user-owned, onsite solar array in the U.S.

Apple has revealed plans to build the United States' largest end user-owned, onsite solar array at its Maiden, North Carolina iDataCenter.

Green Mountain Data Center reuses existing mountain halls

Environment

Fjord-cooled data center in Norway claimed to be world's greenest

A data center built inside a mountain and cooled with water from a nearby fjord will be the greenest in the world, according to its developers.