Severe weather shifts are forcing companies to rethink their energy strategies; they're using both technology and geography to become more energy independent.
Severe weather shifts are forcing companies to rethink their energy strategies; they're using both technology and geography to become more energy independent.
Delaware Gov. Jack Markell (center right), and other state and local dignitaries, tour the Bloom Energy facility in Newark on Friday. The plant will open this summer and eventually employ 900 people.
One of the longest-running mysteries in the data center world appears to have been sold after it was revealed that Facebook is secretly funding a new, $1.5 billion facility in Altoona, Iowa. The facility, which has been referred to by … Continue reading →
The social network is the mysterious company behind a billion-dollar-plus data facility in Iowa, says a report. Apple had also been among the suspects named by data detectives. Originally posted at News - Internet & Media
One of the longest-running mysteries in the data center industry appears to be solved. Facebook is the company behind a $1.5 billion data center project bound for Altoona, Iowa, according to local media.
Google today announced a major expansion of its data center campus in North Carolina, saying it will spend $600 million to build new server farms. The search giant also said it will use its purchasing power to jump-start a renewable energy program for Duke Energy, the utility that provides...
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.
Of greatest concern is that as financing for cleantech gets tight, the brightest startups will struggle to find early stage capital and those companies nearing the path to commercialization will find it hard to find scaling capital.
With their voracious appetites for energy, data centers present enormous challenges for companies looking to trim their carbon footprint and cut their utility costs. Part of the problem is due to something we’ll call “energy anxiety,” in which data centers are outfitted with an overabundance of systems to guard against any possibility of a power disruption.
Washington, D.C. - Experts with the National Center for Public Policy Research are questioning the validity of Apple's recent announcement that its data centers will run on 100-percent renewable energy, and warning the public to "check the fine print."
For each megawatt-hour of power the fuel cell system generates, CO2 emissions will be reduced by 18–25%, according to internal calculations based on the California AB 32 Scoping Plan and data provided by Bloom Energy. Over a project life of 10 years,
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.
Apple this week said that all of its data centers are powered by renewable energy. How Apple achieved that impressive goal reflects the complexity of transitioning to renewable energy. In its annual environmental footprint report, Apple detailed how its U.S. data centers—the computing centers that serve up Apple’s online services—can claim to be powered by “100 percent renewable energy.”
... Internet storage and Apple's service-hosting iCloud product, produces 167 million kilowatt-hours - the power equivalent of 17,600 homes for one year - from a 100-acre solar farm and fuel cell installations provided by Silicon Valley startup Bloom Energy.
... Internet storage and Apple's service-hosting iCloud product, produces 167 million kilowatt-hours - the power equivalent of 17,600 homes for one year - from a 100-acre solar farm and fuel cell installations provided by Silicon Valley startup Bloom Energy.
A year ago, Apple was targeted by Greenpeace International, which ranked Apple 12th out of 14 large technology companies in a report called “How Clean Is Your Cloud?” Now Apple says it uses only renewable energy at its giant data centers.
While technological progress and the environment often seem to be at odds, many tech companies are working hard to lessen the impact their businesses have on the planet. Over the last several years, Apple has released an annual progress report about its environmental status, and this year is no different.
Apple said Thursday that it has achieved 100 percent renewable energy at all of its data centers, including facilities in North Carolina, Oregon, California and Nevada.
Apple has announced its data centres use 100 percent renewable energy, while the organisation as a whole uses 75 percent renewables. Greenpeace, which has long campaigned over Apple’s efficiency record, says Apple is still damned by the company it keeps.
Just one year after Greenpeace called out Apple for its use of fossil fuels in its "How Green Is Your Cloud" report – which graded Apple no higher than a "D" in four categories consisting of energy transparency, infrastructure siting, energy efficiency, and renewables and advocacy – Apple announced that its data centers are now powered by 100 percent renewable energy.
After a vigorous campaign by Greenpeace to highlight the carbon-spewing computer halls of the cloud giants, Apple has announced it is feeding its data centers entirely with renewable energy. Apple's flagship Maiden, North Carolina data center is now supplied by 100 per cent renewable energy, with 42 million kWh coming from an on-site solar array, and the rest from biogas stored in nearby fuel cells.
Target Corporation, the second-largest discount retailer in the United States behind Walmart, is trialling Bloom Energy fuel cells at two of its California stores, in San Francisco and Pasadena. The trial forms part of a wider initiative to investigate on-site energy generation at Target stores; the company currently uses roof-mounted solar panels at 26 of its stores.
There's a maxim in the data center business that you can't manage what you can't measure, and eBay has come up with the mother of all measurement systems for calculating data center efficiency. The online auction giant has devised a methodology that looks at the cost of its IT operations in dollars, kilowatt hours and carbon emissions, and ties those costs back to a single performance metric -- in eBay's case, the number of buy and sell transactions its customers make at eBay.com.