By LAURA LOREK Founder of Silicon Hills News Facebook has saved $1.3 billion in the last three years by making its data centers more energy efficient. That’s enough energy to power 40,000 houses a year and saves on carbon emissions the equivalent of taking 50,000 cars off the road, said Charlie Manese, vice president of […]
UTSA Hosts the Open BigCloud Symposium
By LAURA LOREK Founder of Silicon Hills News Some of the biggest trends in technology today are the cloud, a fancy name for data centers, and big data, the massive bits and bytes of information flowing through those data centers. At the University of Texas at San Antonio, more than 100 people met Wednesday to […]
The Open Compute Project helps data centers save energy and increase efficiency
By L.A. Lorek Data centers gobble up energy. But some of the smartest minds in the information technology industry want to change that. They are meeting in San Antonio today and tomorrow to rethink the old ways of putting together servers, power and cooling units and the rest of the guts of data centers to […]