Press

Contact information for team members is available on this page.

Media Coverage

Media coverage of Direct Current data center demonstration project is archived here.

• DatacenterDynamics FOCUS 2010. "Is the Smart Grid an Intelligent Move?" Vol. 3, Issue 8, February/March 2010, pp. 21-22. [.pdf]
• R&D Magazine 2009. "The Great Fume Hood Debate" October 21. [.pdf]
• New York Times. 2009. "Seeking Energy Savings at the Heart of the Internet." October 11. [.pdf]
• GreenSource. 2009. "Data Center Groups Lobby USGBC for New LEED Rating System." April 27. [.pdf]
• Government Computer News. 2009. "Air flow control can yield more efficient data centers." April 3. [.pdf]
• EcoStructure. 2009. "Lessening Laboratories' Loads." March.
• Buildings. 2008. "8 Energy Benchmarking Hurdles (and How to Get Over Them)." July, pp 56-61. [.pdf]
• Environmental Leader. 2008. "'Old' IT Doesn't Have to Mean 'Inefficient'." June 30. [.pdf]
• New York Times. 2008. "Demand for Data Puts Engineers in the Spotlight." June 17. [.pdf]
• Federal Computer Week. 2008. "Take the Guesswork Out of Green." April 11. [.pdf]
• Chemical & Engineering News. 2007. "Close Your Hood!" Vol. 85, No. 41, pp. 44-45.[.pdf]
• The Scientist. 2007. "Can Labs Go Green?" Vol. 21, No. 6.
• Forbes. 2007. "Building a Greener Grid." [.pdf]
• KGO TV (Channel 7). 2007. "Tackling Data Center Energy Consumption." [view]
• Computerworld. 2007. "Green Grid to Deliver More Studies by Year's End." August 8. [.pdf]*
• Mercury News. 2007. "Making Data Centers Greener." [.pdf]*
• Semiconductor International. 2007. "New Practices Improve Cleanroom Bottom Line."
• Laboratory Equipment. 2007. "Green Chemistry Drives Opportunities for Innovation." [.pdf]*
• ComputerWorld. 2007. "Assessment, Incentives Key to Government's Data Center Energy Goals." March 5 [.pdf]
• TechTarget. 2007. "Cooling Data Centers with Outside Air Gets the Go-Ahead." March 4 [.pdf]
• PowerPulse. 2007. "Study Reveals Scope of Annual U.S. Data Center Energy Consumption: 45 Billion kWh, Costing Nearly 3 Billion Dollars." February 19. [.pdf]
• Red Herring. 2007. "Study Exposes Server Energy Costs." February 15. [.pdf]
• Financial Times. 2007. "IT-Related Energy Consumption Doubles." February 15. [.pdf]
• CNET News. 2007. "Servers Slurp More Power Than Mississippi." February 14. [.pdf]
• SFGate.com. 2007. "Demand Grows, but Data Centers Don't Hog Power: Net Uses Barely Over 1 Percent of U.S. Electricity, Study Says." [.pdf]
• Energy Services. 2007. "Energy Efficiency in New and Existing Computer Data Centers." Western Area Power Administration. [.pdf]
• Nature. 2007. "Energy Efficiency: Super Savers: Experimenting with Efficiency." Vol 445, p 590-591. [.pdf]
• Information Week. 2007. "Researchers Seek Networking Energy Efficiency." February 5. [.pdf]
• Tradeline. 2007. "Implementing Design Principles to Enhance Energy Efficiency." February 7. [.pdf]*
• Tradeline. 2007. "Design Strategies Maximize Energy Efficiency in Science Buildings Proper Planning Results in Significant Cost Savings." January 31. [.pdf]*
• Wall Street Journal. 2006. "Unclogging The Data-Center Power Drain." December 21. p. B3. [.pdf]*
• Tech Target. 2006. "Fears of Cooling with Outside Air May Be Unfounded." December 4. [.pdf]
• Wall Street Journal. 2006. "Portals: Computer Industry Slowly Grows Greener."> June 14. [.pdf]
• HPC Wire. 2006. "Spec to Develop Energy Metrics for Servers." May 16. [.pdf]
• eWeek. 2006. "Can DC Power Cut Data Center Costs." March 27 [.pdf]*
• Energy & Power Magazine. 2005. "Group Studies DC Power in Data Centers." November 21.*
• Building Operating Management. "Plugged into Energy Use." August, 2004, p. 31.*
  
• Building Operating Management. "Software Helps Keep Energy-Efficient Designs On Track." August, 2004, p. 32.*
• Scientific American. "Power-Thrifty PCs," June, p. 31. [.pdf]*
• e-News. "LBNL Research on Data Center Efficiency." June 20, 2005, Issue 47. [.pdf]*
• Cleanrooms Magazine. "FFUs: Setting a Course for Energy Efficiency", Sarah Fister Gale, September 2004
• Cleanrooms Magazine. "Rediscover Energy Efficiency ... Now." Michael A. Levans, Chief Editor, CR Magazine, Feb 2004, p. 4. [.pdf]
• Cleanrooms Magazine. "Good Corporate Citizens Unite: Following the California Energy Crunch, Cleanroom Operators are Rallying to Tame the HVAC Beast. It's time to Join the Fight." Chris Anderson, Feb 2004, p. 12. [.pdf]
• Engineered Systems. 2003. "Clearing the Air About the Latest Fume Hoods." June.
• Engineered Systems. 2003. "Design Intent Tool." June.