Yahoo was named as winner of the 2014 DataCenter Dynamics North American Award, “Improved Data Center Energy Efficiency,” for its joint data center project with SynapSense®, a Panduit company, that is saving 7.5 million kilowatt hours of energy annually.

While small data centers are not going away any time soon, the increase in data collection in a number of industries is spurring growth in the size — and type — of data centers.

The global data center cooling solutions market is forecast to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 13.2 percent over the period of 2014-2019, according to a report from Research and Markets.

A supercomputer created by Hewlett-Packard (HP) and the U.S Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) that uses warm water to cool its servers, and then re-uses that water to heat its building, has been honored as one of the top technological innovations of the year by R&D Magazine.

McKinstry, a design-build-operate-and-maintain firm, and Sabey Data Centers, a leading owner, developer, and operator of data center properties, have partnered to develop a product called the Mobile Commissioning Assistant for data center owners, allowing them to simulate actual operating conditions prior to installing servers.

Renewable energy is among the top emerging technologies being considered by data center owners to help address power and cooling costs, according to a Mortenson survey of corporate data center executives, data center developers and operators, and information technology providers.

STULZ Air Technology Systems announced the completion of the first phase of its planned expansion to its existing U.S. production facilities in Frederick, Maryland. STULZ manufactures cooling solutions for mission critical applications and data centers.

Much of the massive amounts of electricity that America’s data centers use to support our business and online activity is being wasted running computer servers doing little or no work most of the time, according to a report released in August by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC).