News Roundup

• 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.