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1. eBay adopts fuel cells for mega-data centers
  
  Explore Hydrogen Fuel News Nov 2 2012 Construction , Power and Cooling , Emissions , Fuel Cell , Cloud Computing
  
  Online retail giant eBay is looking to build its next generation of mega-data centers in Utah, Arizona, and Nevada. These states offer promising tax incentives and low latency for consumers that will be connected to the company’s network to make purchases. While these states may present eBay with several benefits, one problem remains: Powering these mega-data centers effectively. The data centers being built by eBay are expected to consume a large amount of electricity and the retailer is keen to ensure that this comes from renewable sources.
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2. EBay's Bet on Fuel Cells Will Influence Data Centers
  
  Explore BusinessWeek Oct 31 2012 Construction , Data Center Outages , Power and Cooling , Fuel Cell , Solar
  
  When Dean Nelson, the vice president responsible for provisioning and consolidating EBay’s (EBAY) data centers, evaluated Utah as a site for EBay’s next mega-data-center project, he was mostly happy. It offered tax incentives, low latency for serving EBay’s customers, and the right workforce. But for one problem: “There was a challenge around getting clean power,” says Nelson. Utah has less than 3 percent renewable energy and generates 82 percent of its power from coal, according to data from 2009 provided by the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
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3. What eBay’s bet on fuel cells means for the modern data center
  
  Explore GigaOM Oct 30 2012 Construction , Data Center Outages , Emissions , Fuel Cell
  
  When the VP responsible for provisioning and consolidating eBay’s data centers, Dean Nelson, went to Utah to evaluate the locale as a site for eBay’s next mega data center project, he was mostly happy. It offered tax incentives, low latency for serving eBay’s customers, and the right work force. But there was one problem. “There was a challenge around getting clean power,” says Nelson. Utah has less than 3 percent renewable energy and generates 82 percent of its power from coal, according to data from 2009 from the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
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4. AT&T adding 9.6MW of fuel cell power
  
  Explore Environmental Information, Green News Oct 15 2012 Construction , Emissions , Fuel Cell , Servers
  
  The telecommunications company will be Bloom Energy's largest non-utility customer. Mon, Oct 15 2012 at 8:00 AM EST AT&T Bloom Energy Box in San Ramon, California Photo: AT&T; AT&T is expanding its green energy portfolio with the planned addition of 9.6 megawatts of fuel cell power. Bloom Energy’s Bloom Boxes will generate the clean energy, which will bring AT&T’s total Bloom Energy portfolio to 17.1MW of clean power generation.
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5. Should I Be Generating My Own Power for My Data Center?
  
  Explore Relocate Oct 11 2012 Construction , Power and Cooling , Fuel Cell , Solar , Wind
  
  Energy is the lifeblood of data centers, and as it becomes scarcer and as its cost increases, more companies will consider the feasibility of generating their own power. Although the perceived benefits of on-site power generation—especially with renewable sources like wind and solar—are tempting, the decision to pursue either supplemental or exclusive generation is one that must be made carefully.
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6. AT&T Takes Control of its “Energy Destiny” with Bloom Energy Fuel Cells
  
  Explore Triple Pundit Oct 3 2012 Construction , Carbon Footprint , Emissions , Fuel Cell
  
  By Tina Casey | October 3rd, 2012 0 Comments Tweet solid oxide fuel cell rocky mountain institute Renewable Energy KR Sridhar Fuel Cells Environmental Defense Fund clean energy Bloom Energy Bloom Boxes AT&T sustainability AT&T fuel cells One major advantage of renewable energy is access to a reliable supply of power at a more predictable price than conventional grid-supplied electricity. That’s especially important to tech
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7. AT&T to Install More Bloom Boxes
  
  Explore Data Center Knowledge Oct 2 2012 Construction , Emissions , Fuel Cell , Servers
  
  Bloom Energy continues to gain traction for its fuel cell technology with major data center operators. AT&T said today that it will purchase an additional 9.6 megawatts of fuel cell capacity, which will make it Bloom Energy’s largest non-utility customer. In July 2011, AT&T announced plans to deploy 7.5 megawatts of ”Bloom Boxes” at 11 AT&T sites in California, including data centers. With today’s announcement, AT&T will now have more than 17 megawatts of Bloom Energy Servers helping to power 28 AT&T sites in California and Connecticut.
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8. AT&T Offers Big Commitment to Fuel Cell Player Bloom Energy
  
  Explore DailyTech Oct 2 2012 Construction , Fuel Cell
  
  Solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) are not anything particular new or Earth-shaking, nor are the materials involved. Thus when K. R. Sridhar -- a former Ph.D researcher for The National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Mars exploration efforts -- launched a startup claiming to have radically reinvented the SOFC and created the "server" of the backup energy world, interest was piqued as to exactly what Bloom Energy was doing that was so innovative.
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9. AT&T doubles down on Bloom Energy fuel cells
  
  Explore GigaOM Oct 2 2012 Construction , Carbon Footprint , Emissions , Fuel Cell , Servers
  
  AT&T is now Silicon Valley fuel cell maker Bloom Energy’s largest customer that’s not a utility, according to San Jose Mercury reporter Dana Hull. Hull reports that AT&T more than doubled the size of its deal to buy power from Bloom Energy fuel cells to 17.1 MW. Bloom makes fuel cells that take fuel (natural gas or biogas) and combine it with oxygen and other chemicals to create an electrochemical reaction that produces electricity. Bloom Energy servers can deliver distributed power on site at a building, and this can have a lower carbon footprint and potentially more electrical reliability than grid power.
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10. Demand Response: Green Energy's Gateway Drug?
  
  Explore Forbes.com Sep 30 2012 Construction , Fuel Cell
  
  I made my way to Boston this afternoon for the EnergySMART 2012 Conference, which kicks off tomorrow at the crack of dawn. EnerNOC, a pioneer of data-driven demand response and energy efficiency applications, is the perennial master of ceremonies for the three-day conference in Boston‘s Copley Square, which promises to provide attendees with “actionable, practical strategies” for strengthening the bottom line through energy savings.
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11. Could A Lunar Supercomputer Work?
  
  Explore Data Center Knowledge Sep 28 2012 Construction , Fuel Cell , Solar , Supercomputer
  
  Over the years, we’ve seen data centers in lots of strange places – old chapels, shopping malls, old particle accelerator silos and all kinds of underground bunkers. Proposals have been floated for containers in caves, data centers on floating barges and servers mounted on hovering drones. Now a researcher has come up with an out-of-this-world computing challenge – building a supercomputer on the moon.
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12. How 'clean' is the source of your data center power?
  
  Explore zdnet.com Sep 26 2012 Construction , Fuel Cell
  
  Based on the amount of public relations pitches launched at me this week by some of the bigger data center technology and cloud services players, it is clear that The New York Times article critical of the sector's energy consumption has touched some very sensitive nerves. I actually wrote about the potential for green data center projects mere days before The New York Times piece, so I won't spend all that much time rehashing the fact that the market is expected to double between now and 2016.
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13. Google Signs Utility Deal To Power Data Center With Wind Energy
  
  Explore Forbes.com Sep 26 2012 Construction , Emissions , Fuel Cell , Wind
  
  Google said Wednesday that it has signed a first-of-its-kind deal with an Oklahoma utility to buy 48 megawatts of wind energy to help power its data center in that state. In years past, the search giant has signed power purchase agreements with wind developers to buy the electricity generated by their projects. Google has invested directly in renewable energy projects, such as the 370-megawatt Ivanpah solar thermal power plant now under construction in California.
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14. Why Renewable Energy is the Right Decision for Google's Green Data Center
  
  Explore greenm3.com Sep 26 2012 Fuel Cell , Wind
  
  Google was nice enough to let me know yesterday that they would make a renewable energy announcement today, and I have a bit of time to think about the impact of the announcement. More renewable energy for our data centers September 26, 2012 We announced our commitment to carbon neutrality back in 2007, and since then we’ve been finding ways to power our operations with as much renewable energy as possible. In our latest step toward this end, we just signed an agreement with the Grand River Dam Authority (GRDA) to green the energy supply to our Oklahoma data center with 48 MW of wind energy from the Canadian Hills Wind Project in Oklahoma, which is expected to come online later this year. ... This brings the total amount of renewable energy for which Google has contracted to over 260 MW. The press release went live at 7:00a PT ...
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15. Google powers a data center with wind for the first time
  
  Explore GigaOM Sep 26 2012 Construction , Emissions , Fossil Fuel , Fuel Cell , Solar , Wind
  
  For the first time Google has purchased wind power to directly power a data center in Oklahoma. Previously Google has invested hundreds of millions of dollars into clean power projects, but had yet to power its data centers directly with clean power.
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16. Data centers, accusations and the fallout
  
  Explore GreenBiz.com Sep 26 2012 Construction , Fuel Cell , Cloud Computing
  
  In a series of articles this week, the New York Times refused to pull punches in exposing the dirty secrets of the data center industry as wasteful power users who violate air quality laws and strong-arm overmatched small towns with their might and influence. There's been no shortage of backlash from tech pundits. To highlight a few, here are responses from: Wired, Slate, Triple Pundit, Slashdot, Datacenter Knowledge and even a 5000-word treatise from Diego Doval.
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17. Report: Nasa, Dod, Gsa Use Information Tech to Cut Energy Use
  
  Explore environmentalleader.com Sep 25 2012 Construction , Emissions , Fuel Cell , Cloud Computing , Servers
  
  NASA, the General Services Administration, the Department of Defense and the Smithsonian Institution have all used information and communications technologies to reduce energy consumption and emissions while at the same time cutting costs and meeting sustainability mandates, according to a report released by the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions. The C2ES report, “Leading by [...]
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18. The New York Times Blasts “Cloud Factories” on Energy Use
  
  Explore Data Center Knowledge Sep 23 2012 Construction , Power and Cooling , Fuel Cell , Cloud Computing , Servers
  
  The New York Times today kicks off a series of articles on the data center industry,offering a tough indictment of the data center industry and its energy use and environmental impact. But is this a current picture of the state of "cloud factories?" Here's our two cents The post The New York Times...
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19. Bloom Energy Continues to Add New Customers
  
  Explore energyandcapital.com Sep 21 2012 Construction , Emissions , Fossil Fuel , Fuel Cell , Servers
  
  Perhaps you are one of the many investors still persistently watching any news at all on Bloom Energy in anticipation of an IPO. No, the news still hasn't appeared. In fact, the company itself hasn't issued a press release in several months. But that doesn't mean it's slowed down its path of success. Bloom Energy continues to supply major facilities and big companies with its desirable Bloom Energy Servers, or Bloom Boxes. Bloom's first commercial Energy Servers, which shipped in 2008 and were s
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20. New fuel cell system generates power on campus
  
  Explore Phys.Org Sep 21 2012 Construction , Emissions , Fuel Cell , Servers
  
  UC Santa Barbara is now host to a unique new energy system that is providing electricity as part of the university's commitment to energy efficiency and sustainability. The new 200-kilowatt Bloom Energy Server is directly connected to Southern California Edison's electric distribution system. "UC Santa Barbara is a leader in advanced energy efficiency research," said David McHale, associate director of Utility and Energy Services in Facilities Management. "Developing next-generation materials an
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21. Fuel Cell Round Up: VC Funding, Fcel, Utc, and Bloom
  
  Explore Greentech Media Sep 20 2012 Fuel Cell
  
  More VC funding and controversy for fuel cells Funding Fuel Cells: ACAL Energy and Lilliputian Systems ACAL Energy, a U.K.-based fuel-cell developer, raised $5 million from existing investors. ACAL builds platinum-free or low platinum-content catalysts and PEM fuel cells for applications requiring more than one kilowatt of power. The firm raised $4.8 million in 2008 from CT Investment Partners, Rising Stars Growth Fund, NorthStar Equity Investors, Porton Capital, and Synergis Technologies, along
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22. The Price on Bloom Energy
  
  Explore Greentech Media Sep 17 2012 Fuel Cell , Wind
  
  Bloom Energy, the Silicon Valley fuel cell maker with an estimated $800 million in VC and backers like John Doerr, T.J. Rogers and Colin Powell, is on a short list of green technology startups voted most likely to IPO someday soon, though the company has remained consistently mum on the topic. But what's the value of the San Jose, Calif.-based startup to its investors? The answer depends on who's selling.
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23. Photo: Apple's Solar Farm is Growing Fast
  
  Explore REVMODO Sep 17 2012 Construction , Fuel Cell
  
  What a difference only a month and a half makes! Back in early August, we saw the first photos of Apple’s new 171-acre solar array (capable of generating 84 million kWh of energy annually). It was impressive then – but these new shots courtesy of North Carolina’s TV Station WCNC-TV and GigaOm – show just how expansive the farm is growing.
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24. Will Microsoft's data centers be backed up by Bloom fuel cells?
  
  Explore GigaOM Sep 17 2012 Construction , Power and Cooling , Carbon Footprint , Emissions , Fuel Cell , Cloud Computing
  
  Will Microsoft’s data centers be backed up by Bloom fuel cells? * By Katie Fehrenbacher * 3 Comments * + Tweet + + + + Email This Will Microsoft be the latest Internet company to buy fuel cells from Bloom Energy to provide power for its data centers? Microsoft says it is looking for backup power sources that could use natural gas and could replace its diesel generators. Behind the scenes with Bloom Energy's new fuel cell thumbnail Will Microsoft be the latest data center operator to use fuel cel
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