The Greenest Datacenter
In January Sun opened the doors of our most ambitious green datacenter yet in Broomfield, Colorado. It uses our innovative power and cooling technologies to set new standards in energy-efficient, modular datacenters. Thanks to space consolidation, water savings, chemical reductions, and free cooling, Broomfield's savings really add up.
Visit the Broomfield Datacenter
See inside Sun's newest and most efficient green datacenter in Broomfield, Colorado, and find out how Sun is revolutionizing datacenter design.
The datacenter:
- Saves more than $1,000,000 in electrical costs
- Reduces CO2 emissions by 11,000 metric tons each year
- Reduces Son's corporate carbon footprint by 6 percent.
Second Life Eco Innovation Tour
Greg Papadopoulos, Sun's CTO, and Dean Nelson, Sun's Senior Director, Global Lab and Datacenter Design Services, lead a virtual tour of the pod architecture deployed in Sun's eco-efficient Broomfield and Santa Clara datacenters.
Taking Sun's Eco Message Worldwide
OpenEco.org https://www.openeco.org/ provides free and easy-to-use tools that help organizations assess, track, and report your GHG emissions and reduce your carbon footprint. You can also find proven best practices for reducing different kinds of emissions, compare energy performance with other organizations, and share ideas for sustainable innovation.
Calculate your organization's emissions
Take a Tour of OpenEco.org
Find out how to create custom emission rates for your organization, see the new functionality in OpenEco.org 2.0, and watch a demo of the tools you can freely use.
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Remove Energy Hogs
Over half of Sun's 2007 $55 million utility bill was from labs and datacenters running hardware comprised of old energy hogs. As s aresult, Sun started the Bring Out Your Dead program. BOYD asks managers to round up the outdated and orphaned hardware draining energy and unplug them.
So far more than 6,000 devices four years or more old and powered up full time have been unplugged. Consider that a single server running 24/7 creates about the same amount of CO2 as a car driven for a year, and may cost as much as $7,000 in energy. Learn more about BOYD in this short video.
Award-Winning Eco Efforts
On April 21, 2009, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency presented Sun with a 2009 Climate Protection Award in Washington, D.C, which the EPA gives to organizations that are working hard to protect the earth's climate. Sun won this award for reducing total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) by 23 percent by the end of 2007, which was five years ahead of schedule.
Sun Named to UpTime Institute Global Green 100
Sun has been named to the Uptime Institute's Global Green 100 list, signifying the company's achievements in energy efficiency, and recognizing the company's board-level policy of commitment to increasing energy efficiency and reducing its datacenter carbon footprint.
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Boxing Up the Internet Archive
The Internet Archive's data was growing faster than its datacenter could handle, but it didn't want to build another, traditional facility that it would again outgrow. So, the non-profit organization put its three petabytes of data in a Sun Modular Datacenter (Sun MD) equipped with Sun's Open Storage Technology. The Sun MD saves the Internet Archive space and energy, and it has plenty of capacity to keep up even with the growth of the Internet.
Learn more about the Internet Archive's Sun MD solution
Cutting the Ribbon on the Internet Archive
See Brewster Kahle of the Internet Archive, and Sun's Greg Papadopolous unveil Internet Archive's Wayback Machine Sun Modular Datacenter.
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Inside the Wayback Machine
Find out how the Internet Archive uses Sun technologies to ensure data integrity for the petabytes of data it keeps online for the Internet community's free use.
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