While some sites clear up the aftermath of a deluge, others should get their cleaning in order

How well did the industry do in predicting 2015?

Power gluttons should cut down their wasteful energy demands

Google got it right, and the UK got it very wrong in Paris

To prevent outages, make capacity management a company-wide mission

Nuclear energy is low-carbon. Should the industry be supporting it on the same terms as renewables?

The rise of edge data centers means Interxion Paris won’t be the last data center to annoy its neighbors

It shouldn’t take a death to remind us that health and safety rules are not optional. 

Here are some simple steps to tackle safety issues in your facility

Small and medium sized data centers can calculate PUE without metering beyond the UPS

California learnt to allow refrigerants

Solar storms are real, but preparing for them is not a simple matter 

ASHRAE’s new data center building standard includes recommended PUE levels

Why change the Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) metric? 

Uptime Institute admits problems with multi-level certification, and its critics have a field day

If electric cars take off, their batteries could solve the problem of intermittent renewable energy supplies

Finally, Amazon responds to Greenpeace: the cloud saves carbon, no matter how you power it

Fires, leaks and shocks can strike data center workers. Let’s all keep safe

Cloud providers are asking for green tariffs. Electricity firms are not playing ball

Fears that UK’s new Government is printing Internet ration books are premature

Bloom Energy has large customers, but information (and installations) are a trickle not a flood

Data centers face a risk from their power and cooling systems. But managing for efficiency ought to reduce the danger

ASHRAE wants us to expand our humidity range. We’ll need to check what this will do to our liquidity

Innovative economy-mode technologies help save energy and improve system reliability while guaranteeing backup power in emergencies