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Wednesday, September 30, 2009 4:00 PM

New Chicago Data Center One of World’s Largest to use Containers

Microsoft is celebrating the grand opening of our new Chicago data center today.  The 700,000 square feet  facility will help Live, Online and Cloud Computing services offerings for customers throughout North America.  In a post on the
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Thursday, September 24, 2009 3:16 PM

Microsoft’s New Ireland Data Center Using Outside Air to Cool the Facility and Drive Energy Efficiency

Today Microsoft had a grand opening for its latest data center located in Dublin, Ireland which was built to deliver Online, Live and Cloud Services to customers throughout the world. With the demand of Cloud services such as Bing, Windows Live, and the
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Monday, September 21, 2009 5:46 PM

Podcast: Stop pampering your processors!

Christian Belady from Microsoft’s Global Foundation Services team was recently interviewed by InsideHPC's John West on this topic and can be listened to at: http://insidehpc.com/green-hpc-podcast-series/green-hpc-podcast-episode-4-stop-pampering-your-processors/
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Wednesday, September 09, 2009 10:37 PM

Microsoft’s new R&D Support Lab helps move servers to more energy efficient facility

Microsoft recently opened Redmond Ridge 1, the company’s first purpose-built Research and Development Support (R&DS) facility designed specifically to consolidate computer labs from the main Redmond campus and house servers used in the development
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Thursday, September 03, 2009 6:10 PM

Efficiency & Environmental Impact Research by Jonathan Koomey

Intel and Microsoft released a series of unique research studies, co-written by Jonathan Koomey visiting professor at Yale’s School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and an expert in energy conservation technology, economics, policy and global climate
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Tuesday, July 28, 2009 2:26 AM

New Microsoft Environmental Practices video

I just wanted to let you know that we’ve just posted a brand new video highlighting some of Microsoft’s corporate environmental practices. This is a short video that will give you a brief overview of our efforts around reducing our waste stream; reducing
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Saturday, July 25, 2009 12:57 AM

Rob Bernard to keynote Data Center Dynamics conference

Wanted to let you know that Rob Bernard will be giving the keynote session at the upcoming Data Center Dynamics conference in Seattle on August 6th. The theme of the conference is Carbon: Risk or Opportunity. The development, design and construction of
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Thursday, May 07, 2009 8:46 PM

Microsoft signs EU Code of Conduct for data centers and targets PUE of less than 1.2

Reposted from DataCenter Dynamics article Microsoft has signed up as a participant and an endorser of the EU code of conduct for data center efficiency. To date the company is one of the largest data center operators to sign as a participant in the Code.
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Wednesday, April 29, 2009 4:31 PM

Designing Generation 4.0 Data Centers: The Engineers’ Approach to Solving Business Challenges

Microsoft’s data center team blog by Daniel Costello was posted this morning on: Designing Generation 4.0 Data Centers: The Engineers’ Approach to Solving Business Challenges, part 1. A couple of years ago, when our Data Center Services’ Research &
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Wednesday, April 22, 2009 7:34 PM

“Going Green” with TechNet Magazine

To celebrate Earth Day and help you create a more energy efficient IT infrastructure, TechNet Magazine is publishing a special online-only edition dedicated to Green IT. Discover new tools for planning a virtual environment, learn how to easily enforce
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Tuesday, April 21, 2009 8:32 PM

Green IT webcast series

As I mentioned in a previous blog post , Microsoft is kicking off a Green IT webcast series on TechNet. We now register for the first 5 in the series. Here’s the full list and direct links to find out more and register: · Transforming the Data Center
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Wednesday, April 08, 2009 4:18 PM

How “Green” Are Microsoft Online Services

As some of you know, the Environmental Sustainability team has recently created a Twitter account to enhance the conversation around Sustainability and Microsoft. You can find us on Twitter @microsoft_green . A few weeks ago, Diane Gallagher (@farthestcorners)
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Tuesday, April 07, 2009 5:06 PM

Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit for Energy Efficient Computing

Last week, Microsoft released an update to the Assessment and Planning toolkit that provides specific reports for energy efficiency savings. Organizations can use the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit to quickly obtain comprehensive planning
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Thursday, April 02, 2009 5:35 PM

Creating a Greener Data Center

A new article posted today on Microsoft’s efforts to create more efficient and “greener” data centers. you can read the full article at http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2009/apr09/04-02Greendatacenters.mspx It wasn’t long ago that corporations
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Friday, March 27, 2009 4:43 PM

In the news this week

I wanted to share some of the news coverage that we’ve seen this week following Rob Bernard’s visit to San Francisco for the Green:Net 09 conference. CNET News Daily Podcast: Getting Windows 7 to use less power http://news.cnet.com/8301-11424_3-10204409-90.html
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