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• IT Host The Planet
appoints CAPSTAR Real Estate Commercial Services to manage its fifth date center in Dallas, featuring modular cooling technology with high-efficiency water-cooled chillers.
• Network World
discusses what makes a wireless telephone company green.
• EBay
promises to reduce its corporate greenhouse gas emissions by 15% over a 2008 baseline.
• HP
wants to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 40% by 2011.
• NTT America
announces that is Ashburn Data Center in Northern Virginia has earned LEED Gold certification.
• Pricewaterhousecoopers
announces that it reduced its carbon footprint by 10% in 2008, through a combination of measures including Green IT.
• KT, Korea's largest telecom company,
plans to spend $120 million on Green IT.
• A Gartner poll
shows two-thirds of IT managers rank Green IT a top priority, but only 7% consider green procurement equally important.
• Netherlands-based Imtech N.V. has
received orders worth over 25 million Euros for green data centers for financial institutions in the Netherlands.