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Categories
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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
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Green:Net: Innovating to Reduce Energy Consumption of Computing
Earth2Tech (May 3 2010)
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As information technology begins to improve energy efficiency in industries such as transportation and electricity generation, it will grow to consume ever more energy. Because of this Bill Weihl, Green Energy Czar at Google, says the industry has a responsibility to focus on making sure its own data centers are as efficient as possible. He noted that data centers could contribute 18 percent of the world greenhouse gasses by 2020.
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