“green data center” search on google.cn vs google.com

Curious on how google.cn (google’s china version of search) works vs. google.com I tried “green data center”

On Google.com GreenM3 is #1.  On Google.cn GreenM3 is #6, but I still snuck in a #1 spot as the #1 entry is my old TechNet article on Green Datacenters.

Actually, now that  I look at the Google.com results, I have spot #1 and #2.  Pretty cool.

Here is google.com results.

Google

Results 1 - 10 of about 124,000,000 for green data center. (0.43 seconds)

Search Results

  1. Green Data Center Blog

    Dec 14, 2009 ... Monitoring, Modeling, Managing the Green Data Center.
    www.greenm3.com/ - Cached - Similar -

  2. Green IT: Build a Green Datacenter

    Companies around the world are beginning to think of ways to save energy and reduce costs, yet there is little guidance on how you can take action.
    207.46.16.252/en-us/magazine/2009.gr.datacenter.aspx - Cached - Similar -

  3. The Green Grid

    IIJ to Conduct Proof of Concept Testing for the Next Generation Eco Data Center: 25 November, 2009 | Comment now · The Green Grid and BCS to Collaborate on ...
    www.thegreengrid.org/ - Cached - Similar -

  4. News results for green data center


    DatacenterDynamics
    Digital Realty Trust Bolsters Green Datacenter Leadership With ...‎ -2 days ago

    We have achieved more green certifications for our facilities than any other company in the datacenter industry, and we continue to apply our expertise in ...

    CNNMoney.com (press release) - 34 related articles »

    Capstone Receives Follow-on Order From Texas Data Center‎ -CNNMoney.com (press release) - 8 related articles »

  5. Image results for green data center
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  6. 10 Simple Steps to a Green Data Center - Trends

    Slideshow: Data centers require gobs of electricity to maintain. Dave Douglas, vice president of eco-responsibility at Sun Microsystems, shares his top tips ...
    www.cioinsight.com/.../10-Simple-Steps-to-a-Green-Data-Center-%5B2%5D/ -Cached -

google.cn

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  1. Green IT: Build a Green Datacenter
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    Companies around the world are beginning to think of ways to save energy and reduce costs, yet there is little guidance on how you can take action.
    207.46.16.252/en-us/magazine/2009.gr.datacenter.aspx - 网页快照 - 类似结果

  2. What is green data center? - Definition from Whatis.com - see also ...
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    9 Dec 2008 ... A green data center is a repository for the storage, management, and dissemination of data in which the mechanical, lighting, electrical and ...
    searchdatacenter.techtarget.com/.../0,,sid80_gci1178582,00.html - 网页快照 - 类似结果

  3. 10 Simple Steps to a Green Datacenter - IT Management
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    You can cut costs and make a global impact by joining the trend toward the eco-friendlydatacenter.
    www.itmanagement.com/.../10-steps-green-datacenter/ - 网页快照 - 类似结果

  4. Google 图片：green data center
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  5. Green Data Center - 绿色数据中心- TT百科- TechTarget中国

    绿色数据中心（Green Data Center）是一个用于存储、管理和传播数据的储存库，其中的机械、照明、电气和计算机系统旨在将能源效率最大化和环境影响最小化。
    www.searchdatacenter.com.cn/word_2026.htm - 网页快照

  6. Going Green at Google | Clean Energy Initiatives
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    Finally, we've begun to share our own data center best practices and are encouraging our ...Being "green" is essential to keeping our business competitive. ...
    www.google.com/corporate/green/datacenters/ - 网页快照 - 类似结果

  7. Apple Recruits eBay Data Center Executive Olivier Sanche, Can ...
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    10 Aug 2009 ... I have been lucky to meet eBay's Sr. Director, Data Center Services & Strategy, Olivier Sanche at a variety of data center events and ...
    www.greenm3.com/.../can-apple-change-data-centers-the-way-they-changed-cell-phone-and-media-players-apple-recruits-ebay-data-center-exe... - 网页快照

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Safer Natural Gas storage at a data center site

Natural Gas or methane gas from a landfill is a possibility to provide on site power generation for data centers via fuel cells, but the storage tanks to supply days worth of energy at a site can be a risk.  As natural gas is looked for a fuel for cars, safer storage is a priority.

Going through the National Renewable Energy Lab site I found a presentation on the current efforts on Hydrogen storage.

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One easy starting point for is University of Missouri, so I drilled into what Professor Peter Pfeifer from the University is doing.  And, found this article.


Fuel of the Next Generation of Clean Vehicles Is in Missouri's Soil

MU researchers developing more practical natural gas storage tanks using corncob waste, landfills

April 9, 2009

Story Contact:  Kelsey Jackson, (573) 882-8353, JacksonKN@missouri.edu

COLUMBIA, Mo. -Natural-gas-fueled cars would be more eco-friendly and cost efficient than current petroleum-fueled cars. However, natural-gas-fueled vehicles face a few road blocks before they can cruise on every U.S. highway. The Alliance for Collaborative Research in Alternative Fuel Technology (ALL-CRAFT), a partnership among the University of Missouri, the Midwest Research Institute (MRI) and nine other institutes, is working to make natural-gas-fueled cars a reality by using existing Missouri resources, such as corncob waste and methane from landfills.

"Missouri's corn can supply raw material for natural gas tanks for all the cars in the United States," said Peter Pfeifer, professor and chair of the Department of Physics in the MU College of Arts and Science. "The recovery of natural gas from Missouri's landfills would turn a pollutant into renewable energy and could provide an opportunity for economic growth in rural areas."

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Gartner predicts by 2014 carbon impact will be common practice

In Gartner’s predictions beyond 2010, there is a point on carbon reporting be common praicte by 2014.

By 2014, most IT business cases will include carbon remediation costs.Today, server vitalization and desktop power management demonstrate substantial savings in energy costs, and those savings can help justify projects. Incorporating carbon costs into business cases provides a further measure of savings, and prepares the organization for increased scrutiny of its carbon impact.

Gartner goes on to predict the vendors will need to provide carbon life cycle costs.

Economic and political pressure to demonstrate responsibility for carbon dioxide emissions will force more businesses to quantify carbon costs in business cases. Vendors will have to provide carbon life cycle statistics for their products or face market share erosion. Incorporating carbon costs in business cases will only slightly accelerate replacement cycles. A reasonable estimate for the cost of carbon in typical IT operations is an incremental one or two percentage points of overall costs. Therefore, carbon accounting will more likely shift market share than market size.

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Gartner predicts by 2012 Cloud Computing will allow 20% of businesses to be all Cloud based with no physical assets

ZDnet has an article referring to Gartner’s prediction.

Gartner issues its own 2012 prediction: end of IT as we know it

Posted by Joe McKendrick @ 1:59 pm

Which will come first: the end of the world on December 21, 2012, or one-fifth of organizations dumping their IT assets?

I don’t know about the first item, but the Mayans certainly didn’t seem to see the cloud computing wave coming. But Gartner says it did, and issued a prediction that by 2012, 20 percent of businesses will own no IT assets. Gartner says this is a result of cloud and virtualization, and extends to client systems as well — employees will be using their own personal desktops, notebooks, and devices on corporate networks. In other words, all third-party ownership:

Here is the Gartner news release.

By 2012, 20 percent of businesses will own no IT assets. Several interrelated trends are driving the movement toward decreased IT hardware assets, such as virtualization, cloud-enabled services, and employees running personal desktops and notebook systems on corporate networks.
The need for computing hardware, either in a data center or on an employee's desk, will not go away. However, if the ownership of hardware shifts to third parties, then there will be major shifts throughout every facet of the IT hardware industry. For example, enterprise IT budgets will either be shrunk or reallocated to more-strategic projects; enterprise IT staff will either be reduced or reskilled to meet new requirements, and/or hardware distribution will have to change radically to meet the requirements of the new IT hardware buying points.

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Hydrogen Potential from Coal, Natural Gas, Nuclear, and Hydro Power

Hydrogen can work as an energy carrier from multiple energy sources.  Here is the conversion factors for 1 kg of hydrogen from a National Renewable Energy Lab document.

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Hydrogen from coal: 7.6 kg of coal/kg hydrogen

Hydrogen from natural gas: 4.5 normal cubic meters/kg of hydrogen

Hydrogen from nuclear and hydro power: 58.8 kWh/kg of hydrogen

On average, about 3 gallons of water are needed to produce 1 kg of hydrogen

1 kg of hydrogen can potentially displace 4.35 kg or 1.58 gallons of gasoline

The document also has maps showing possible sources of Hydrogen.  Below is Nuclear and Hydro.

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