Next green building initiatives and LEED v5
Green building initiatives have been launched across companies, organizations, and industries throughout the last decades. More webcasts, podcasts, conferences, standards, and classifications have been developed, scrutinized, and codified for the laymen and industry experts alike. By all accounts, the green ‘movement’ has been a success for awareness that has developed into action for developers to […]
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Communication overload is over
We are constantly bombarded with information from an ever-increasing variety of sources. Just think of the number of social media applications released over the last year or two and how some have faded and others have dominated. Decades ago communication was mostly via land line telephones, radio, and broadcast TV. Numbers were written down in […]
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False Information
There continues to be a flurry of articles homing in on the data center industry, calling it out as a wasteful, inefficient use of resources on top of being noisy energy hogs that also detract from the landscapes they occupy. The write ups aim to tap into the emotional attachment of the reader to the resources […]
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AI Boom
The AI boom has taken off worldwide, with many new and old companies in the sector investing in the latest technology, such as the nVidia platform, causing those manufacturer values to soar ever higher. Now the equipment that so many has purchased is starting to be delivered, allowing a real surge of technology to gobble up […]
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Photovoltaic energy payback
We’re recently gone through the exercise of energy return ratios for photovoltaic (PV) energy generation, as we had yet another ‘expert engineer’ and ‘LEED data center expert’ claim that photovoltaic sources never paid back the amount of energy based on their production. Statements like this were common in the 1980’s, 90’s, and even early 2000’s. […]
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Batteries 2023
There have been reservations about implementing Lithium-Ion (LI) batteries for data centers, however they have been the preferred energy source for most portable power needs, from cell phones to electric vehicles. Although the electrolyte was deemed a safety hazard due to flammability and overall runaway thermal gain, many industries have reacted to ensure safety features, monitoring, […]
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Jumping on the ChatGPT bandwagon?
Would you be surprised if this was written by a generative text AI such as ChatGPT? It wasn’t, but now this is entirely possible, unlike even a year ago. And often when a ‘buzz-targeting’ TV report or article is presented to an audience there is the twist reveal that some or all of it was written by […]
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Renewable Energy Procurement
One of the leaders in sustainability for hyperscale data centers – Google – shared in 2017 that they had achieved their goal of purchasing 100% renewable energy, having procured more than 7 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity. This is equivalent to the amount of energy used by small countries or states in the U.S. This accomplishment was outlined […]
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Justifying using water and cooling towers for data centers
Evaporative cooling is an integral part of many data center cooling systems as engineers know the benefits of the efficiency achieved by using them. Water is by far a more effective medium for removing heat than air, especially when using evaporation to keep data centers cool. Cooling towers are one of the main means to […]
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Project managing the design processes
Getting projects complete can result in brilliant results, but the process to get there can be painful. This can be a lack of project management processes, meaning that more time is spent on some project phases and not enough time on others. Implementing these processes helps with getting data center projects, with the latest in […]
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