by Paul Kenney | Oct 2, 2014 | A/E Industry News, Uncategorized
Amazon Heats Building With Data Center Waste Heat SEATTLE—In what is believed to be a first-of-its-kind system, Amazon will use the waste heat from a large data center to provide much of the heat in its high-rise campus under construction in downtown Seattle. Once...
by Paul Kenney | Sep 25, 2014 | A/E Industry News, Uncategorized
Ingersoll-Rand to Invest $500 Million to Reduce GHGs NEW YORK—Ingersoll Rand plans to halve its greenhouse gas emissions by 2020, according to an announcement made during the recent 2014 CGI Annual Meeting and United Nations Climate Summit. The company also said it...
by Paul Kenney | Sep 25, 2014 | A/E Industry News, Uncategorized
Unusual Ideas Emerging to Improve Data Center Cooling FOSTER CITY, Calif.—Cooling is one of the key cost factors in the data center, and it is likely to grow more acute as virtualization and software-defined architectures lead to increased hardware density, according...
by Paul Kenney | Sep 25, 2014 | A/E Industry News, Uncategorized
Proposed AC Efficiency Standards Could Yield Unprecedented Energy, Cost Savings WASHINGTON, D.C.—The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has proposed new efficiency standards for commercial air conditioners that could yield the most energy savings of any appliance...
by Paul Kenney | Sep 18, 2014 | A/E Industry News, Uncategorized
CDC’s Questionable Legionnaires’ Policy NEW YORK—Deaths have resulted from a conscious, long-standing Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) policy on how to address Legionnaires’ disease, according to an opinion article in Forbes....
by Paul Kenney | Aug 21, 2014 | A/E Industry News, Uncategorized
Formaldehyde Confirmed as Human Carcinogen WASHINGTON, D.C.—A new report from the National Research Council has upheld the listing of formaldehyde as “known to be a human carcinogen” in the National Toxicology Program’s 12th Report on Carcinogens...
