Environmental group Greenpeace, which last week assailed Facebook for using coal-powered electricity in its data centers, is itself using carbon-producing energy to power its servers.

Equinix says its SV2 International Business Exchange (IBX) has earned the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Certification from the US Green Building Council.

Go-ahead for Google Energy

Invest in America Alliance to target cleantech, IT, biotech

NEC last week announced the launch of its Cloud Platform Suite to support telco cloud services. The platform includes virtualized servers, data storage and networking equipment. It is scheduled to ship by the end of February.

For smart grid and other emerging

Governments are starting to recognise the need to reduce its carbon footprint and mitigate negative environmental impacts. Green IT can reduce exponentially the consumption and costs associated with critical, energy-intensive government IT functions, like the datacentre and the desktop. Victor Tsao, GM for Citrix Systems in Greater China, offers three key areas to help public-sector green efforts.

Intel, looking to be a leader in the green energy movement, is getting ready to begin construction on eight solar power installations in separate facilities in four states.