Inside 1102 GRAND’s data center (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) –- To celebrate last Friday’s Earth Day, Rosendin Electric and Vantage Data Centers ( www.vantagedatacenters.com ) held the Smart Data Center Revolution , providing a tour of Vantage’s new energy-efficient data center campus. First announced last month , the event included a tour of the first of three data center buildings, presentations by David Gottfried, founder of the US Green Building Council, Fujitsu, GE Intelligent Platforms, Symantec, and VMware. Electrical contractor Rosendin Electric has been working closely with Vantage Data Centers on the design and buildthe electrical systems for the $300 million, 18-acre data center campus

Inside 1102 GRAND’s data center (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) –- To celebrate last Friday’s Earth Day, Rosendin Electric and Vantage Data Centers ( www.vantagedatacenters.com ) held the Smart Data Center Revolution , providing a tour of Vantage’s new energy-efficient data center campus. First announced last month , the event included a tour of the first of three data center buildings, presentations by David Gottfried, founder of the US Green Building Council, Fujitsu, GE Intelligent Platforms, Symantec, and VMware. Electrical contractor Rosendin Electric has been working closely with Vantage Data Centers on the design and buildthe electrical systems for the $300 million, 18-acre data center campus

A screen shot of Greenpeace`s Dirty Energy report page (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) –- Environmental organization Greenpeace ( www.greenpeace.org ) announced on Thursday it has released a new study that highlights the rapidly growing environmental footprint of the online world and evaluates both good and bad energy choices made by top IT companies such as Facebook, Google, Apple, and Yahoo!. Titled “How Dirty is Your Data?,” the report details the large amount of electricity required to power cloud offerings

Web Hosting – Lenexa, KA – In celebration of Arbor Day and Earth Days in April, Codero a dedicated hosting and cloud computing provider , is inviting its associates, their families and customers in the Kansas City area where the company is headquartered, to participate in EarthWalk on April 16, 2011 . The three-mile walk is a fundraiser for Bridging the Gap, an organization connecting business leaders, government agencies and citizens on environmental issues. In addition, Codero recently initiated two endeavors to further reduce its environmental footprint

An image from the Bridging the Gap website shows some tips for green living (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — In the buildup to Earth Days in April, hosting provider Codero ( www.codero.com ) announced that it has introduced a few new measures intended to increase the company’s overall “green” efforts as a business. First among those initiatives, the company is encouraging employees, their families and customers in the Kansas City area – the location of Codero’s headquarters – to participate in the EarthWalk on April 16, 2011, a three-mile walk to raise funds for Bridging the Gap, an organization that brings together government agencies with citizens and business leaders on environmental issues

Facebook’s Open Compute servers and the hot aisle doors, photographed by Alan Brandt (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) –- Social media giant Facebook ( www.facebook.com ) announced on Thursday it has launched the Open Compute Project, an initiative to share the custom-engineered technology in its first dedicated data center in Prineville, Oregon. This advanced technology delivered a 38 percent increase in energy efficiency at 24 percent lower cost for Facebook. Now, the social media firm will share the specifications and best practices behind this data center technology to companies across the industry.

A video still from Greenpeace’s new TV ad asking Facebook to “unfriend coal” (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) – Environmental organization Greenpeace ( www.greenpeace.org ) released an ad urging social media firm Facebook ( www.facebook.com ) to “unfriend coal” power in its data centers by Earth Day on April 22. The ad will be broadcast in California Wednesday, where Greenpeace hopes to reach many of the company’s 2,000 employees in Silicon Valley, according to a blog post by the Guardian . Realistically, would be highly unlikely for Facebook to change its power source, let alone by the tight deadline set out by Greenpeace.