The company's massive new Generation 4 facility in Mecklenburg County will showcase its modular designs and put Microsoft's future data center plans on the map.

In its first eco-rankings for mobile phones, the company puts potentially energy-sucking smartphones at the top of the list. Are smartphones really that green, or did the company move its goalposts to boost smartphone sales?

A new survey sponsored by Fujitsu found room for improvement among all elements of green IT practices, but that data centers and computer fleets are relatively well covered, while energy management and carbon impacts are almost nonexistent.

A blast of cool air far away from the servers in a Savvis data center triggered a hunt for iar leaks and ended with the discovery of $6 million in savings

Simple steps, such as power management software and using available green ratings can lead to big savings in energy and money for companies large and small.

Today is Power IT Down Day, a global effort to get workers to turn off their computers, monitors, printers and other peripherals before they go home. And though it may be a small action to take, the rewards are potentially huge.

The third annual Power IT Down Day takes place Friday, August 27, and software company JouleX has compiled a list of the top things IT managers can do to cut energy costs from their PC fleets.

The industry is by and large playing a defensive tactic of improving its energy efficiency, while failing to take advantage of the coming huge market opportunities like the smart grid, which use IT for green.

The 33,000-square-foot facility, which will open its doors next month, has a PUE of 1.08, and boasts the U.K.'s Environment Agency as one of its premiere clients.

The financial services firm's Northpointe data center has met the government's new standard for energy efficiency in computing facilities.