What Do Cows, Volcanoes, Sun and Wind Have in Common?

Greenpeace (Jun 9 2010) Carbon Footprint , Fossil Fuel , Geothermal , Cloud Computing , Servers

1. They can all be used to power the cloud. A sudden burst of concepts for renewably powered data centers has appeared in tech news lately. Part school science project and part Apollo Project, ideas for how to get data centers to run on renewable energy are proving to be both diverse and creative. We recently posted a blog on this topic, outlining the environmental and economic reasons for IT companies to instate discriminating site selection policies for their data centers, which would prioritize locations that do not further drive demand for coal and other fossil fuels. (Read Full Article)

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