2. Categories

      Data Center Design: Construction, Container, Data Center Outages, Monitoring, Power and Cooling
      Policy: Cap and Trade, Carbon Footprint, Carbon Reduction Commitment, Carbon Tax, Emissions
      Power: Biomass, Fossil Fuel, Fuel Cell, Geothermal, Hydro, Nuclear, Solar, Wind
      Application: Cloud Computing, Grid Computing
      Technology: Microblogging, Networking, Servers, Storage, Supercomputer

  3. Quotes

    1. “ Cloud computing in general has the opportunity to improve the general efficiency of server operations. ”
      By Patrick Baillie

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  1. Swiss Carbon-Neutral Servers Hit the Cloud

    GreenBiz.com (Jun 30 2010) Carbon Footprint , Emissions , Solar , Cloud Computing , Servers

    1. Swiss Carbon-Neutral Servers Hit the Cloud Call it the merger of two buzzwords, one from years past and one of-the-moment: Swiss firm CloudSigma announced this week that it has made its cloud computing service carbon neutral. Although the company used carbon offsets to reach zero-carbon (offsets were the tool du jour for early carbon-neutrality commitments), the offsetting was only the final stage of a three-stage process to reduce emissions. The first step involved siting their data center with green energy in mind; Switzerland boasts a green electric grid, with 95 percent generated from zero greenhouse gas renewable and nuclear energy sources, as well as high potential for renewables from geothermal, hydroelectric, wind and solar power. (Read Full Article)

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