There's a major data center project brewing in Delaware, with a group called The Data Centers (TDC) planning a data center near Newark.The massive project will also feature a large on-site energy component. and draw no electricity from the utility grid.
Silicon Valley venture capitalists like to crow that it’s now cheaper than ever to establish a startup company. While that may be true for internet firms, the amount of money required to fund a Silicon Valley green tech startup can be mind-boggling.
Case in point is fuel cell maker Bloom Energy, which Fortune today reported had taken its total raised to $1.1 billion, thanks to a new $130 million round. The company is one of Silicon Valley VCs' last big bets on green tech, with funding from Kleiner Perkins
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.
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.
Bloom Energy had $101 million in pro forma Q3 2012 revenue alone. And Bloom suggests it will turn a profit, according to Dan Primack of Fortune.Bloom's valuation dwarfs the collective market cap of the public fuel cell firms and its revenue is greater than the
Bloom Energy had $101 million in pro forma Q3 2012 revenue alone. And Bloom suggests it will turn a profit, according to Dan Primack of Fortune. Bloom's valuation dwarfs the collective market cap of the public fuel cell firms and its revenue is greater than the
During the dot-com boom, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, the venture capital investment firm, all but minted money, making prescient early investments in Netscape Communications, Amazon.com and Google and delivering astonishing returns to investors.
Servers consume the majority of energy in a data center -- primarily in the processors and memory components. Organizations can gain significant energy efficiency by upgrading servers to more efficient models during normal technology refresh cycles where
If you’re a Verizon subscriber, all that Facebooking, texting, and tweeting you do on your smartphone is about to get a bit greener. The US telecom giant says that it will spend $100 million over the next ...
Fuel cells and solar energy have been hallmarks of the most high tech datacenter deployments in recent years, starting with Google adding Bloom Energy equipment as power source in their California headquarters. Verizon has previously installed fuel-cell
Verizon is getting fuel cells for the project from Hillsboro, Oregon-based ClearEdge Power, which will install its PureCell Model 400 fuel-cell systems at the network and data center services company's California, New Jersey and New York sites.
John Donahoe, president and CEO of eBay, joined Fortune's Adam Lashinsky on stage at the Fortune Brainstorm Green conference in Laguna Niguel, Calif.
We are now in an era of centralization, Microsoft Director of Energy Strategy Brian Janous said yesterday in his keynote address at Data Center World Spring 2013 at the Mandalay Bay, drawing many parellels between the data center and energy industries at
Microsoft is looking deeply into energy efficiency and insists that that its gaze must encompass the entire system - not just on a the level of the data center, but scrutinizing what it takes to create a unit of content.
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
More than 300 senior executives have gathered in California to look at sustainability innovations. Here are the first-day highlights Hollywood star It's good to see a Hollywood actor who avoids the trap of becoming merely a trophy ambassador for the environmental movement.
Many large businesses, including industrial operations, have long produced their own power instead of relying only on their local utilities. The emergence of solar, fuel cells and other low-carbon technologies are opening up new possibilities for companies that want an uninterrupted power supply while lowering their carbon footprint at the same time.
Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ) said Tuesday that it plans to spend $100 million to install solar panels and fuel cells at more than a dozen facilities that will generate and use the clean power.
When Hurricane Sandy decimated a large portion of the East Coast last year, companies and their data centers wound up without electricity for days or, in some cases, even weeks.
Your iTunes downloads, Facebook posts and YouTube videos travel through small rural communities that are home to billion-dollar data centers from the world's largest cloud builders. Here's a look at these facilities and how they're changing these communities.
On the other hand, Bloom Energy had $101 million in pro forma Q3 2012 revenue alone. And Bloom suggests it will turn a profit, according to Dan Primack of Fortune. Bloom's valuation dwarfs the collective market cap of the public fuel cell firms and its
Computerworld - When Hurricane Sandy decimated a large portion of the East Coast last year, companies and their data centers wound up without electricity for days or, in some cases, even weeks.
Your iTunes downloads, Facebook posts and YouTube videos travel through small rural communities that are home to billion-dollar data centers from the world's largest cloud builders. Here's a look at these facilities and how they're changing these communities.