Energy Efficiency

Feature "Digital Infrastructure"

Luxembourg – The Digital Nation in the Green Heart of Europe

Christine De Ridder from LuxConnect, on the importance of energy efficiency & the need for infrastructure providers to also transform digitally.

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Feature "Energy Efficiency"

Using Fiber to the Edge to Cut the Carbon

Piers Benjamin illustrates how Corning saved energy and money by installing FTTE in their sustainably-built global HQ.

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Feature "IoT"

How to Combat Global Warming with the Internet of Things

When the world environmental ministers gathered in Paris in 2015, we saw tears of joy. The world agreed on an ambitious goal to limit global climate change. But the plans for how the countries intend to achieve this goal remained vague, which is unfortunate. Corning’s Jochen Lorenz sees tremendous opportunity for European industry and businesses to grow with solutions that save energy.

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Feature "Energy Efficiency"

The Win-Win Situation of Data Center Energy Efficiency

Reducing power consumption in data centers has multiple benefits for operators and customers. dotmagazine caught up with Marc Wilkens, Senior Consultant at the Data Center Group and Leader of the eco Competence Group Data Center Energy Efficiency, to find out how to achieve this.

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Feature "Data Center"

HPC – Tackling Problems That Are Just Not Solvable by Physical Methods

Testing, modelling, simulations – innovations in fields as disparate as blood circulation and aviation depend on high-powered computing applications to crunch the numbers and analyze the vast quantities of data produced in the development of new and better products. Andy Long from Hydro66 talked to dotmagazine’s Judith Ellis about the exciting applications of high performance computing (HPC), data center requirements for HPC, and abundant green power.

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Feature "Sustainability"

Data Centers Must Become More Sustainable

Wolfgang Kaufmann from Datacenter One explains what makes data center operations energy-efficient.

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Feature "Data Center"

Case Study: Data Center Efficiency – How AI Can Help Optimize Data Center Cooling

Jens-Peter Feidner from Equinix and Dr. Niklas Panten from etalytics explain their use of AI to monitor & optimize energy consumption for data center cooling.

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Feature "Energy Efficiency"

Green and Affordable: Reducing Electricity Costs by Archiving Data on Tape

Do you need to store data in the long-term? Then save electricity and CO2 emissions through tape technology, as recommended by Melina Schnaudt from FUJIFILM.

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Feature "Data Center"

Sustainable data center: How to transform legacy data centers into sustainable assets

Severin Braun from plusserver looks at how legacy data centers can be optimized and modified to meet the EU’s sustainability targets and move towards a greener future.

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Feature "Energy Efficiency"

A Delphi-Based Estimation of Several Ecological Utility Values of Internet Applications

How video conferencing and telecommuting can help to reduce the ecological footprint of companies. Prof. Georg Rainer Hofmann & Meike Schumacher from the Aschaffenburg University of Applied Sciences explain.

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Feature "Cloud Computing"

How Clean Is Your Data Usage? Measuring Carbon Footprint in the Cloud

The energy consumption of data centers, where cloud services are hosted, contributes significantly to carbon emissions. OVHCloud’s Falk Weinreich shows how companies can measure the sustainability of the IT resources they use.

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Feature "Data Center"

OSDA – a New Approach for the Sustainability of Data Centers

The exponential growth in data collection and processing has been accompanied by a colossal use of energy. Lex Coors of Interxion describes a new standard that helps data centers to strike a balance between the principles of availability and sustainability.

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Feature "Data Center"

A Balanced Data Center Design

Mathias Loacher from 1&1 IONOS explains the factors influencing data center design and planning, and the benefits of their own new data center design.

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Feature "Data Center"

EU Code of Conduct for Data Center Energy Efficiency

Making a data center environmentally friendly and energy efficient offers a range of advantages for the operator. The reduction in power consumption offers cost benefits which can increase margins or flow on directly to the end customer, making the data center more competitive. Being green is also a selling point for enterprise customers interested in reducing their carbon footprint. Becoming green also means time spent optimizing processes and improving systems, a challenging but rewarding process.

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Feature "Data Center"

Innovative Approaches to Energy Efficiency in Data Centers

Roland Broch, the administrator of the eco Data Center Expert Group and the eco Data Center Star Audit, talks to dotmagazine about innovative approaches to energy efficiency in data centers; from water cooling to Kyoto wheels.

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Feature "Data Center"

Secure and 100% Green Data Center and Cloud Services from Central Europe

Muzaffer Ege from Beyond.pl on the importance of sustainable data center operations and meeting Europe’s carbon neutrality targets.

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Feature "Connectivity"

A Sustainable Future with Optical Fiber

Corning and Sphera unlock the green potential of optical fiber; how its low carbon footprint revolutionizes connectivity. Discover its environmental edge over copper networks and the sustainable path forward.

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Feature "Green IT"

Green Efficiency

How Europe's leading hyperscale cloud provider, OVH, uses climate-friendly techniques to cool its servers – good for the environment and the pocket, as Dr Jens Zeyer from OVH Germany explains.

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Feature "Energy Efficiency"

CO₂ Savings in The Fiber Rollout – Which Installation Method is Best?

Alternative deployment methods for fiber optics can reduce the carbon footprint significantly, as Tobias Schubert from Corning outlines.

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Feature "Energy Efficiency"

Why and How the Energy Requirements of Data Centers Are Growing

Data centers have very high levels of energy consumption and this is growing continually. Dr. Ralph Hintemann of the Borderstep Institute looks at why the demand for energy is so high despite ever better energy efficiency.

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Feature "Energy Efficiency"

New Toolkit Helps Data Centers Assess their Environmental Impact

The European CATALYST innovation project has launched a toolkit that helps data centers to self-assess their environmental impact, as Robbert Hoeffnagel from Green IT Amsterdam explains.

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Feature "Sustainability"

Port Breakout and VSFFC: Optimizing Sustainability in Data Centers

Cindy Ryborz from Corning Optical Communications, on supporting higher speeds, compressing computing power, storage and data throughput, and improving energy efficiency.

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Feature "Data Center"

What a “Green” Data Center Does To Save Energy

While a major consumer of energy, the data center industry is foremost in energy efficiency and are a greener option for corporate IT. BIT’s Alex Bik gives examples.

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Feature "Data Center"

Shining a Light on Sustainable Heat & Energy – A Data Center Perspective

Dr. Béla Waldhauser from Telehouse and the Alliance for the Strengthening of Digital Infrastructures looks at the opportunities for data centers to contribute to a green future.

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Feature "Energy Efficiency"

Data Centers in the Transformation to Sustainable Energy Consumption

As data centers become ever larger consumers of energy, they have the chance to play a key role in shaping the move towards using more renewable energy and the future energy market. Staffan Reveman of Reveman Energy Academy looks at the hurdles ahead and possible symbioses for data center energy consumption.

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Feature "Renewable Energy"

Blackouts, Renewable Energy, and Powering IT Reliably

Volatile renewable energy is increasingly important for national and internationally connected power grids, but, according to Judith Ellis, care is needed to provide stable power for critical infrastructure and sensitive IT processes.

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Feature "Data Center"

Heat Recovery from Data Centers: A Win-Win Situation

Data centers and society both have much to gain from the use of waste heat, a topic elaborated upon in a white paper and by Béla Waldhauser, Leader of the eco Data Center Infrastructure Group.

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Feature "Energy Efficiency"

Abundant Energy Potential through Utilization of Data Center Waste Heat

Data centers & society have much to gain from waste heat utilization, as illustrated by Dr. Béla Waldhauser from Telehouse & the Alliance for the Strengthening of Digital Infrastructures.

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Feature "Energy Efficiency"

Why the German Energy Efficiency Act Can Significantly Improve the Environmental Footprint of Digitalization

Dr. Béla Waldhauser, Spokesperson of the Alliance for the Strengthening of Digital Infrastructures in Germany, explores the transformative impact of the German federal government’s Energy Efficiency Act on the digital infrastructure landscape.

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Feature "Green IT"

Reducing the Bill for Powering the Digital Economy

For both the environment and company OPEX, power consumption cannot increase at the same speed as computing power. Judith Ellis explores what data center operators and company IT professionals can do to create efficiencies.

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Feature "Data Center"

doteditorial April 2017

Dr. Béla Waldhauser, Leader of the eco Competence Group Datacenter Infrastructure, on powering and greening IT.

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Feature "Sustainability"

Energy Transition and Internet Expansion Go Hand in Hand

Harald A. Summa from the eco Association, on how the decentralized design of the Internet offers a blueprint for the restructuring of energy supply.

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Feature "Data Center"

Data Centers in a Changing World

Dr. Béla Waldhauser from Telehouse & the Alliance for the Strengthening of Digital Infrastructures on the energy consumption and energy-saving potential of data centers and digitalization.

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