Syracuse University

SU named to 2010 InfoWorld Green 15 for its new Green Data Center

Syracuse University has been named one of the 2010 Green 15 by GDC's InfoWorld for the University's innovative Green Data Center. The annual Green 15 award recognizes the 15 most innovative IT initiatives of organizations around the world that have embraced green technology to drive projects and develop products aimed at boosting energy efficiency, trimming waste, and reducing or eliminating the use or the production of harmful substances.

A collaboration of SU, IBM and New York State, the GDC has been hailed as one of the world’s greenest computer centers, designed to use about 50 percent less energy than a typical data center. The $12.4 million, 12,000-square-foot facility (6,000 square feet of infrastructure space and 6,000 square feet of raised-floor data center space) was completed in early December 2009 and became fully operational earlier this month.

The GDC is used by SU as its primary computing facility and by IBM as a showcase to demonstrate how energy-efficient technologies can reduce energy costs and environmental impact.
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