Rendering courtesy of Apple Lights On Maiden, N.C., data center will draw power from a 20-MW solar farm and 5-MW fuel-cell installation. Related Links: EDITORS' CHOICE & GREEN PROJECT: Facebook Data Center Apple is hoping to get a boost from the sun to power its rapidly growing cloud services.Having completed a $1-billion, 500,000-sq-ft data center in Maiden, N.C., in late 2011, the computing giant recently began construction on a 20-MW solar farm. Along with a new 5-MW fuel-cell installation, the company plans to use the farm to supply all the energy needed to run the facility.The data center, which was
By Zlatko Batistich Roof-mounted air handling units feed outside air to supply ducts to deliver cooling for a unique data center located on the urban NJ waterfront that is cooled by 100% outside air. The U.S. Green Building Council is drafting its first set of standards for data-center projects as the growing sector has struggled to meet energy-efficiency benchmarks.The U.S. data-center construction market increased to about $15 billion today from about $5 billion in 2000. According to a study commissioned by computer software giant Microsoft, that number is expected to increase to $20 billion by 2020. But the amount of
As New York intensifies its debate over whether to employ hydraulic fracturing techniques to recover shale-gas deposits in the Marcellus shale formation, Gov. Andrew Cuomo is sticking to his pledge to "let the science and the facts" determine if the state' should lift a two-year moratorium on fracking.
Suburban Maintenance Construction is suing the city of Cleveland after it rejected its $5.6-million bid to upgrade the home of the National Football League's Cleveland Browns.The firm, based in Cleveland, wants a court to void the contract, which went to the slightly higher $5.8-billion bid by Platform Cement of Mentor, and then award it to Suburban. Bryan Stucky, president of Cleveland-based Suburban, claims that none of the five bidders satisfied the city's goals for hiring firms owned by minorities or women. He says Platform Cement's paperwork showed that it had contacted just one minority-owned firm, which it planned to use
A proposed $150-million wind farm in Ohio's Champaign County cleared a major hurdle with a March 6 ruling by the Ohio State Supreme Court to back the state’s decision to allow construction to begin on the 9,000-acre site situated in a largely rural community just west of Columbus.
The U.S. Army has ramped up efforts to power its domestic bases with renewable energy sources, issuing a draft request for proposals to enter into power purchase agreements totaling $7 billion with local utilities over the next 30 years.
Attempting to crack down on a decades-old scam in which front companies perform subcontracts under minority/women-owned business enterprise, or M/WBE, contracting programs, the city of Chicago says it will spend $11 million for improved programs with better oversight. The push follows a federal probe into a company accused by prosecutors of operating as a "sham pass-through" subcontractor on some of the city's biggest public works.Prosecutors have charged Elizabeth Perino, owner of Perdel Contracting Co. and Accurate Steel Installers Inc., with fraud for allegedly using her company as a pass-through firm on four major projects. Perdel was hired by McHugh Construction
Seeking to keep an endangered $8.7-billion trans-Hudson River rail tunnel plan alive, U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood has bought the project a little more time. Proposed route was downriver from existing Amtrak tunnel. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie [R] had announced Oct. 7 that he was killing the project. But after meeting with LaHood the following day in Trenton, Christie agreed to a two-week study of unspecified project "options". Nevertheless, it remains to be seen whether the results of that study will convince Christie to do an about-face and give the plan a green light. Supporters of the Access to
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie today killed the $8.7 billion Trans-Hudson River passenger rail tunnel project that was expected to double commuter train capacity between New Jersey and Manhattan. Christie said he feared cost overruns on the Access to the Region�s Core (ARC) project could cost the state between $2 billion and $5 billion, despite commitments of $3 billion each from the Federal Transit Administration and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. �I will not allow taxpayers to fund projects that run over budget with no clear way of how these costs will be paid for,� Christie
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) on Oct. 7 killed the $8.7-billion Trans-Hudson River passenger rail tunnel project that was expected to double commuter train capacity between New Jersey and Manhattan. + Image Proposed route was downriver from existing Amtrak tunnel. Christie said he feared cost overruns on the Access to the Region’s Core (ARC) project could cost the state between $2 billion and $5 billion, despite commitments of $3 billion each from the Federal Transit Administration and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. CHRISTIE “I will not allow taxpayers to fund projects that run over budget