There's a growing amount of research that says the Internet has a greater net positive effect on the environment than a negative one. But the research is still new and the question is very complex.
Today was Google's "How Green is the Internet Event?" Here is a full list of the speakers at the event. I got ample time with some of the people who are familiar to the data center industry. Presentations and videos will be posted most likely next week. I specifically didn't write anything about the event as I spent my time observing and networking with people there. One of the thing I decided to do was observe the other media attending. Katie Fehrenbacher threw up an early post. Al Gore: The information explosion is a tool to help solve the climate crisis by Katie Fehrenbacher 11 HOURS AGO 2 Comments A A SUMMARY: The Internet and the digital revolution can be a major player in fighting climate change, says Al Gore at a Google event. Forbes's Michael Kanellos has a post on the overall day. It is funny ...
The Internet and the digital revolution can be a major player in fighting climate change, says Al Gore at a Google event.
Google's latest clean power play takes the search engine giant all the way to a Swedish wind farm, which will eventually crank out and pump clean power across the country to a data center in Finland.
Verizon is now the latest customer of Silicon Valley's buzzy fuel cell company Bloom Energy. The trend of telecom and Internet companies increasingly turning to clean power options continues to grow.
Silicon Valley fuel cell startup Bloom Energy has raised another $130 million in funding, according to Fortune's Dan Primack. The latest funding means that Bloom Energy has closed on over $1.1 billion in venture capital funding over its eleven-year lifetime.
The leading energy data startups Nest and Opower have quietly started to look more like competitors, though with some significant differences.
Telecom giant Verizon is expected to announce on Tuesday that it plans to spend $100 million on clean power projects, including installing solar panels and fuel cells at 19 locations to help power its buildings and network infrastructure. Verizon's Chief Sustainability Officer James Gowen plans to make the ... For example, Verizon is putting solar panels on the roof of a data center in New Jersey, as well as on the ground next to the data center. The return on investment for the combined clean power projects is
I was in NC last week, and missed the Google event in Lenoir, NC. When I am doing technical data center work I take almost no pictures and don’t write any blog entries which is why I was so quiet last week and it was understandable I missed the Google event. GigaOm’s Katie Fehrenbacher did cover the Google announcement and put things in perspective of her visit to NC. Google calls on utilities to sell it clean energy for data centers, starting in North Carolina by Katie Fehrenbacher APR. 19, 2013 - 8:30 AM PDT SUMMARY: Google is asking utilities to create programs that will sell companies clean power if they’re willing to pay for it, starting with Duke Energy in North Carolina. It seems with Google’s announcements and Facebook’s announcements, they are both deflecting Greenpeace to go after others. Will Greenpeace start protesting Duke ...
Google is asking utilities to create programs that will sell companies clean power if they're willing to pay for it, starting with Duke Energy in North Carolina.
GigaOm's Katie Fehrenbacher has a post on how some of the best bloggers got to the top. A lesson from the blogging elite: there are many ways to the top by Katie Fehrenbacher 21 HOURS AGO 1 Comment A A photo: Albert Chau SUMMARY: There’s more than one way to the top of the elite blogging ladder. Here’s lessons from four bloggerati that made it there. tweet this The really surprising thing about a conversation with some of the blogging world’s most celebrated names is how little they actually have in common — in terms of their motivations, strategies and business models. At paidContent Live on Wednesday, Brain Picking’s Maria Popova, New York Times columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin, The Dish’s Andrew Sullivan, and web marketing guru Tim Ferriss, discussed the various reasons why they blog, and how (if at all) they monetize their web work.
The era of constrained resources is just beginning, so right now access to resources acts as sort of dark matter, quietly putting pressure in complex ways on how the virtual world operates.
Apple’s massive solar panel and fuel cell farm are now live and providing clean power for its huge data center in Maiden, North Carolina. By the end of the year 60 percent of the power for the data center will come from these sources. tweet this Apple has turned on the first halves of both its massive solar panel farm and adjacent fuel cell farm, and is using the systems to provide power for its $1 billion, 500,000 square-foot data center in Maiden, North Carolina.
President Obama starts to show his hand for how he'll keep support going for clean energy and greener vehicles, and also fight climate change, at a time when Congress won't likely approval major budget increases or aggressive policies.
GigaOM Pro analyst Adam Lesser geeked out with Power Assure CTO Clemens Pfeiffer, and came away with three undercover trends that could transform the data center with energy efficiency.
Google is celebrating the risk-taking entrepreneurs that are looking to create moon shots and solve the world's most pressing problems. Turns out the list is dominated by technologies looking to fight climate change, and solve resource constraint problems.
After buying Landis+Gyr close to two years ago, Toshiba is making another, albeit, much smaller acquisition in the smart grid sector. Last week Toshiba announced that it plans to acquire startup Consert, which had been building a smart home service. I heard about this as a rumor at DistribuTECH last month, but the Landis+Gyr and Toshiba PR folks wouldn’t comment on it.
Show me -- that's the common thread in the top 10 most-trafficked GigaOM cleantech stories of 2012. Exclusive photos and videos of emerging clean power and electric car technologies lead the year. (OK, we're not so surprised by that.)
Apple has decided to more than double the size of its fuel cell project at its data center in North Carolina, making it -- once again -- the largest out there that isn't owned by a utility. For awhile eBay was holding that title.
Let’s not sugarcoat it like that pecan pie you’re going to eat tomorrow tonight. Cleantech, or whatever you want to call the sector these days, has had a hard year. The politicization of cleantech in an election season, fewer venture capitalists funding new companies this year, and widespread solar bankruptcies were all hurdles that cleantech entrepreneurs, investors and innovators had to face in 2012. But there were also quite a few things that excited me this year, which in honor of our upcoming day of thanks, I’ve decided to call out. Here are 10 things to be thankful for in cleantech.
Microsoft will soon start construction on an experimental micro data center at a waste water treatment plant in Wyoming. The concept could help Microsoft scale up clean power for its data centers.
Google unveils photos, gives interviews, and even creates a Google Street View of some of its formerly secretive data centers. Greater transparency is the future of these massive facilities that will house the world's information.
Do data centers that run on clean power seem like pipe dreams? Not when companies hit the massive scales of webscale computing. Execs creating business models off of green data centers say that it's the large size of the projects that makes clean power attractive.
