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    1. Quantifying Cloud Energy Efficiency – Study Funded by Google

      Quantifying Cloud Energy Efficiency – Study Funded by Google

      t’s true that cloud computing technology’s main appeal is the benefits it provides with regard to being cost effective and their ability to reduce a company’s environmental footprint, especially when compared to conventional data center farms. However, many industry experts are still wondering how to quantify these benefits and provide a more accurate, or at least consistent readings of the cloud’s impact and benefits.

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    2. A Google-Funded Study Quantifies Cloud Computing's Environmental Benefits

      A Google-Funded Study Quantifies Cloud Computing's Environmental Benefits

      Cloud computing -- using a centralized data center to process and store you data so that you can access them wherever you are -- is supposed to be more cost effective and environmental friendly than conventional data centers.  But how do you quantify those benefits?

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    3. Full Media Coverage of Google's "How Green is the Internet?" event

      Full Media Coverage of Google's "How Green is the Internet?" event

      I attended as media/press the 3rd Google Energy Summit.  I had been to the 1st, and was briefed on the presentations for the 2nd.  The third didn't focus on data centers as much and more asking questions and presenting data on the environmental impact of data centers and internet technologies.  Urs Hoelzle has been the executive sponsor for each one of these events.  Al Gore and Eric Schmidt for the first time presented their perspectives. 

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    4. Verizon gets Bloom fuel cells for California data center

      Verizon gets Bloom fuel cells for California data center

      Verizon announced an agreement to install Bloom Energy fuel cell systems at three California locations: two call-switching centers in Los Angeles and San Francisco and a data center in San Jose. The solid-oxide fuel cells are expected to generate more than 16m kWh of electricity for Verizon each year. 

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      Mentions: Bloom Energy
    5. Green Initiatives : Changing Perceptions

      Green Initiatives : Changing Perceptions

      Being cleaner than many traditional industries, telecommunications has been generally perceived as environment friendly but when it comes to green initiatives, Indian service providers are yet to meet global standards. There is a growing need for mobile operators to control the construction and operation costs of infrastructure and services in an end-to-end manner while taking up the social responsibility of environmental protection through energy savings and emission reductions. 

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    6. Bloom Energy Loses VTA Fuel Cell Project

      Bloom Energy Loses VTA Fuel Cell Project

      Last week we reported on the $130 million round of funding for Bloom, the decade-old fuel cell firm that has drawn down more than $1.1 billion in venture capital funding. (Also see last month's detailed update on the fuel cell industry.) A panel at a recent SVLG Summit had Xilinx's Matt Jorgensen presenting on his company's positive experience with a 1-megawatt Bloom Box installation. We'll get you more details on that case study shortly.

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      Mentions: Google Adobe eBay
    7. Green data center in Iceland accommodates Opera Software's expansion

      Green data center in Iceland accommodates Opera Software's expansion

      Green data center in Iceland accommodates Opera Software's expansion Opera Software recently signed an agreement for the expansion of its operations at Thor Data Center, a green data center in Iceland owned by leading Nordic Information Technology

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    8. Opera Software Expands Operations at Advania's Green Data Center in Iceland

      Opera Software Expands Operations at Advania's Green Data Center in Iceland

      REYKJAVIK, ICELAND--(Marketwired - May 8, 2013) - Advania, leading Nordic Information Technology (IT) company and owner of Thor Data Center in Iceland, recently signed an agreement with Opera Software for the expansion of its operations in Advania's

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