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    1. boom times for green data center hardware? by Doug Mohney

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      boom times for green data center hardware? by Doug Mohney
      The next decade -- and I really hate long time scales -- is looking to be a boom time for green data center hardware, as Germany and Switzerland take the non-nuclear vow and Japan looks to move more aggressively into renewable energy.   Combine that with organic and expanding growth in Asia and Africa to see green (energy efficient) turn into green (profits). I've already covered how I believe how net zero energy usage should become the new gold standard for data centers, and if you can't get there, data center operators should at least try to move to using less energy by generating power on-site, lessening dependence on the grid.  In my mind, these are pragmatic moves if you are serious about cutting back on carbon generation and ultimately saving money by consuming less (off-site) power.  In the emerging and growing markets of Asia and Africa, having green (i.e ...
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    2. Germany, in Reversal, Will Close Nuclear Plants by 2022

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      Germany, in Reversal, Will Close Nuclear Plants by 2022
      The German government on Monday announced plans to shut all of the nation’s nuclear power plants within the next 11 years, a sharp reversal for Chancellor Angela Merkel after the Japanese disaster at Fukushima caused an electoral backlash by voters opposed to reliance on nuclear energy. Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany in Berlin on Monday. The government has decided to phase out its nuclear reactors. Related In Japan, a Culture That Promotes Nuclear Dependency (May 31, 2011) The plan calls for phasing out all of Germany’s 17 nuclear reactors — eight of which are offline — and expanding the use of renewable resources. The decision was based on recommendations of an expert commission appointed after the Japanese disaster to study an industry that generates 23 percent of Germany’s electricity.
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    3. Google to Switch on World's First Seawater-Cooled Data Center This Fall

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      Google to Switch on World's First Seawater-Cooled Data Center This Fall
      Google to Switch on World's First Seawater-Cooled Data Center This FallGigaOmGoogle has been on the forefront of data center energy efficiency design, and as Yahoo and Facebook start to show of data center efficiency designs, too, a healthy competition has emerged. By the Numbers: Greenpeace's Green Data Center Report Card.and more »
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    5. Greenpeace Lays Out 5-Step Plan for Facebook to Ditch Coal Power

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      Greenpeace Lays Out 5-Step Plan for Facebook to Ditch Coal Power
      With just over three weeks until Earth Day 2011, Greenpeace today continued its efforts to convince Facebook to adopt a policy of clean energy to power its data centers. The latest moves in Greenpeace's "Unfriend Coal" campaign, which we've been covering for more than a year -- see here, here, and here for some of our coverage -- is hoping to pressure the social network to switch from coal and nuclear power for its data centers and embrace renewable energy technologies like so many of its IT industry peers.
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    6. Japan’s Electricity Shortage to Last Months

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      Japan’s Electricity Shortage to Last Months
      The term “rolling blackouts” has become shorthand for noting one way Japan is trying to cope with its national calamity. Add to Portfolio Toyota Motor Corp JPMorgan Chase & Company Honda Motor Co Ltd Go to your Portfolio » Enlarge This Image Stephen Morrison/European Pressphoto Agency Experts say it may be next year before anything close to full electrical power is restored in Japan. Shorthand should not be confused with short term. Utility experts and economists say it will take many months, possibly into next year, to get anywhere close to restoring full power. The places most affected are not only in the earthquake-ravaged area but also in the economically crucial region closer to Tokyo, which is having to ration power because of the big chunk of the nation’s electrical generating capacity that was knocked out by the quake or washed away by the tsunami.
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    7. Twitter Struggles as Japan News Traffic Surges

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      Twitter Struggles as Japan News Traffic Surges
      Twitter is experiencing performance problems this afternoon, most likely due to high traffic as users track dramatic developments in the nuclear emergency in Fukushima, Japan. The Twitter.com web interface seemed to be experiencing the most serious availability problems, but the company said that application trafic using Twitter’s API was also affected.
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    8. Japan May Prioritize Power for Data Centers

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      Japan May Prioritize Power for Data Centers
      Data center provider Equinix has arranged for priority deliveries of diesel fuel to ensure that its two data centers in Tokyo can continue operating through planned blackouts being implemented by the local utility Tokyo Electric Power. The colocation company said Tuesday that the Japanese government is working to ensure that data centers have power so that communications services remain available across the nation, which is coping with the effects of a magnitude 9 earthquake, a devastating tsunami and a nuclear emergency at damaged power plants.
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    9. Major Tokyo Data Centers Fuel Up for Blackouts

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      Major Tokyo Data Centers Fuel Up for Blackouts
      Major data centers in Tokyo say they are undamaged ready to continue operating, even if they lose utility power due to a program of rolling blackouts being implemented by Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO). Some forecasts say the power rationing could continue for weeks or months, placing a premium on access to diesel fuel to maintain services during outages. Some companies are voluntarily powering down non-critical data center operations, including Sony, which is turning off its Final Fantasy online games for at least a week.
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    10. WSJ: Forget the UN Climate Convention -- Rethink Innovation Instead

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      WSJ: Forget the UN Climate Convention -- Rethink Innovation Instead
      The failure of the U.N. climate process is proof that shared economic sacrifice cannot be the basis of global action. Nations will not scale up clean energy as long as it remains so much more expensive than fossil fuels. Thinking past talks in Cancun, nations should focus instead on energy innovation, adaptation, and no regrets policies that do not require agreement about global warming. The first step is recognizing that the global market for clean energy exists only thanks to government subsidies and mandates. Instead of imposing emissions controls and subsidizing existing technologies, nations should use competitive deployment to purchase advanced energy technologies, benchmark the winners, and allow intellectual property to spill-over between firms and nations. This is the framework we propose for pragmatic global climate action in the cover story for a special energy section in today's Wall Street Journal, pegged to the start of U.N ...
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    11. Google Makes Its Case for Wind Power

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      Google Inc., the Web company that a decade ago used engineering prowess to conquer the nascent online advertising market, is now aiming technology and its cash pile at another fledgling industry: offshore wind farming. The company said yesterday that it’s investing in a $5 billion underwater network that can channel electricity from wind turbines scattered off the Atlantic coast, enough to light up 1.9 million homes from New York to Virginia.
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    12. The World's Most Secure Data Center

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      The World's Most Secure Data Center
      Inside the world's most secure data center. If the whistleblower organization Wikileaks wanted to bolster its image as a league of invulnerable digital superheroes, it's found the right subterranean lair. Swedish broadband carrier Bahnhof confirms that some Wikileaks servers are now hosted in its Pionen data center, converted from an underground Cold War-era nuclear bunker in downtown Stockholm. The server farm, carved out of a 100-foot-tall granite hill, has a single entrance, protected by 20-inch-thick steel doors. Bahnhof Chairman Jon Karlung says the facility sends a message to clients: Your data are safe from all intrusions, physical or legal. "The resemblance to a James Bond setting is purely intentional."
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    13. A First Day Look at the Philomathia Foundation Symposium at Berkeley: Pathways to a Sustainable Energy Future

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      A First Day Look at the Philomathia Foundation Symposium at Berkeley: Pathways to a Sustainable Energy Future
      At the opening day of the Philomathia Foundation Symposium at Berkeley: Pathways to a Sustainable Energy Future, the audience learned the following three facts: as a result of carbon emissions from human activity, our planet’s climate is changing faster than models have predicted; improved energy efficiency alone is not enough to fix the problem, therefore new breakthroughs in sustainable energy technologies are needed; however, as a nation, we spend more money on potato chips than we do on sustainable energy research and development. Graham Fleming (photo by Peg Skorpinski) “The provision of sustainable energy is the defining problem of the 21st century, one that presents a challenge of unprecedented scale. Decisions we make now will influence the planet for thousands of years, and dictate our quality of life in both the near and long term,” said Graham Fleming, Vice Chancellor for Research at the University of California (UC) Berkeley ...
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    14. China Solar Projects Draw Interest From 50 Companies

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      China Solar Projects Draw Interest From 50 Companies
      China’s effort to double its capacity to produce solar power has attracted project bids by 50 companies, ranging from nuclear plant operators to circuit-breaker makers, one of the participants said. The tender process has generated 135 offers to build and run solar plants in six provinces, including from China Guangdong Nuclear Power Group Co., the nation’s second-biggest atomic plant builder, according to Qiu Zhanwei, vice-director of Beijing-based solar-module maker Astronergy, which also has bid. “A lot of companies are interested in getting involved in these projects as the government is keen to develop this sector and they want to get an early piece of the action,” said Dennis Lam, an analyst at DBS Vickers Hong Kong Ltd.
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    15. Europe investing in solar and carbon capture

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      Europe investing in solar and carbon capture
      The European Union (EU) is investing in solar and carbon capture. The European Union (EU) plans to aggressively cut Greenhouse Gases with new technology. The EU is investing $50 billion Euros into research and development of solar and carbon capture at coal plants. The EU is comprised of 27 members. It already has a carbon limiting cap and trade program but it is viewed as too expensive by business. Some EU countries have a carbon tax also. Solar power is getting $23 billion Euros over the next decade in investment. Carbon capture is receiving $13 billion Euros over the same time. The hope is to have carbon capture installed on all new coal power plants built after 2020. The Smart City plan aims at urban efficiency. $11 billion Euros goes to buildings and transportation to reduce their carbon footprint.
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    16. U.K. to Cut Barriers to Nuclear Power, Minister Says (Update1)

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      U.K. to Cut Barriers to Nuclear Power, Minister Says (Update1)
      June 16 (Bloomberg) -- Nuclear power can play a key role in the U.K.’s future energy mix, Minister Charles Hendry told executives from Electricite de France SA, Centrica Plc and other utilities. While the new coalition government won’t subsidize the industry, it will remove regulatory barriers and encourage nuclear power by establishing a minimum price for carbon, the energy minister said at the Nuclear Industry Forum in London. Britain, needing 200 billion pounds ($300 billion) to renew aging power plants in the next two decades, will have to tap international investors for the first time, according to the Department of Energy and Climate Change.
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    17. DOE: Grid can tap more wind, solar

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      DOE: Grid can tap more wind, solar
      Large amounts of solar and wind power could be added to the western U.S. power grid without significant spending if utilities make operational changes, the U.S. Department of Energy said Thursday. The DOE report, conducted by the National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) over a three-year period, focused on how the WestConnect power grid would respond if 35 percent of its electricity was generated by renewable sources. The results, researchers said, were surprising. "You need to make some significant changes to operational practice to accommodate wind and solar, but you don't need a whole lot of additional infrastructure to handle that," said Debbie Lew, a senior project manager at NREL.
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    18. Tuning the energy innovation engine at MIT

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      Tuning the energy innovation engine at MIT
      "China speed," climate change, financing gaps, government policy, nuclear and natural gas, and, of course, science experiments. The MIT Energy Conference on Saturday had a little bit of everything, as entrepreneurs, business people, and academics tried to get their arms around big-picture energy challenges. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has become a hotbed for clean-energy innovation over the past four years, attracting students and faculty to the energy field, some of whom have spun out promising companies. At a showcase, local companies and researchers working in wind, solar, biofuels, storage, and efficiency displayed some of their ongoing work. But at the conference, discussion focused more on conventional energy sources, policy, and financing.
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    19. 6 Nuclear Power Startups To Watch

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      6 Nuclear Power Startups To Watch
      President Barack Obama’s $8.3 billion in loan guarantees for new nuclear power plants announced earlier this morning is aimed squarely at building more of the massive, gigawatt-sized reactors we’re all familiar with. Big nuclear is also the target for $36 billion in loan guarantees that the Obama Adminsitration has proposed for the Department of Energy’s 2011 budget. Still, that same budget request could represent opportunity for the handful of startups venturing into the world of nuclear power, if they can deliver on promises of small-scale, modular reactors, nuclear technologies that fuel themselves, or the long-awaited working model of a fusion power plant.
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    20. IBM Hopes To Trigger UK Nuclear Renaissance

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      IBM Hopes To Trigger UK Nuclear Renaissance
      IBM says smart information systems could help improve the image of nuclear energy, but green groups claim such efforts are a dangerous distraction from renewables Smarter information management systems will be a crucial part of efforts to push the development of cheaper and safer nuclear power in the UK, according to IBM. The tech company released details of a survey this week which it claims reveals a more positive attitude to nuclear power in the UK, with consumers more amenable to the technology as a low-carbon alternative to existing fossil-fuel energy sources.
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    21. U.K. Lawmakers Call for Intervention in Carbon Market (Update1)

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      U.K. Lawmakers Call for Intervention in Carbon Market (Update1)
      Europe needs stricter limits on greenhouse gases and the power to intervene in carbon markets as its cap-and-trade program fails to encourage investments in cleaner energy, U.K. lawmakers said today in a report. “It is imperative that there are mechanisms for reducing the EU cap,” the committee said. While the U.K. alone couldn’t change EU caps, the 16-member panel representing the Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democrat parties said “the U.K. should be prepared to act “unilaterally” to curb its supply of permits and “demonstrate a continuing leadership role on tackling climate change.”
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    22. The World's Biggest Green Energy Projects

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      The World's Biggest Green Energy Projects
      The U.S. government, desperate to add jobs to a feeble economy, is looking skyward for help: to the wind and the sun. "We should put more Americans to work building clean energy facilities," Obama said to applause during his State of the Union address Wednesday. Solar and wind power projects tend to appeal to politicians on both sides of the aisle. They are clean and domestic sources of power, and thanks to this government largesse, they are growing fast.
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    23. Securing a Small Nuclear Reactor – bury it in a missile silo or bunker

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      Securing a Small Nuclear Reactor – bury it in a missile silo or bunker
      I was talking to an entrepreneur at Santa Fe Institute’s Business Networking event after a presentation by Stewart Brand on Nuclear Power. We discussed the idea of micro nuclear reactors, and he says it will not happen because of the security issues required for a small nuclear plant vs. a large one, and the danger of terrorist attacks. With all the talk of data center in bunkers and missile silos. How about burying a small nuclear reactor in a missile silo? Seems pretty secure. It is another way to recycle and re-use. Here is a dataecenterknowledge post from 2007 where a missile silo was being sold as a data bunker.
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