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    1. Looks like Apple will make a big bet on clean power in Reno, too

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      Looks like Apple will make a big bet on clean power in Reno, too

      Apple is producing enough clean power, through solar panels and fuel cells, at its data center in North Carolina that it says it can cover 60 percent of the total energy needs of the data center. Will the tech giant be doing the same thing at its new planned $1 billion data center just outside of Reno, Nevada? While details are few at this point, it sure looks like Apple is looking to have a significant amount of its data center power needs met with clean, and grid-independent, power.

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    2. Apple Plans Huge New Data Center near Reno

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      Apple Plans Huge New Data Center near Reno
      Apple is continuing to expand its data center infrastructure to support its growing cloud operations. The company will invest $1 billion over 10 years to build a center at a new technology park near Reno, Nevada. The announcement reflects Apple's growing appetite for data center infrastructure, as...
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    3. Are IT Data Centers Emerging as a Killer App for Green Power? Part II

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      Are IT Data Centers Emerging as a Killer App for Green Power? Part II
      This is part II in a two-part series. Part I can be read here. Clean Energy Options for Data Centers IT and cloud computing companies have three primary avenues for sourcing cleaner energy for their data centers: procure clean energy from the local utility, purchase energy from offsite renewable energy resources, or deploy onsite renewable [...]
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    4. Rio+20: Pepsi, Coke, Levi Strauss to Set Water Efficiency Goals; Other Summit Business News

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      Rio+20: Pepsi, Coke, Levi Strauss to Set Water Efficiency Goals; Other Summit Business News

      CEOs from The Coca-Cola Company, Pepsico, Levi Strauss & Co., Royal Dutch Shell, Unilever and 40 other international companies have agreed to set targets on their own water efficiency and wastewater management in factories and operations, and have called on governments attending the Rio+20 Earth Summit to make global water security a top priority. The 45 CEOs — all of whom have endorsed the Global Compact’s CEO Water Mandate — have pledged to work with suppliers to improve their water practices, and partner with nongovernmental organizations, UN agencies, governments and public authorities, investors, and other stakeholders on water-related projects and solutions.

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    5. Bloom Energy’s Latest Funding Round Spurs Clean Tech Data Centers

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      Bloom Energy’s Latest Funding Round Spurs Clean Tech Data Centers

      Sunnyvale, California based fuel cell maker, Bloom Energy, has raised another $150 million venture capital investment – making the clean tech firm one of the valued pure-play companies in the market. According to DowJones VentureWire, the Series G round is being marketed by Advanced Equities. Should the capital come in, Bloom Energy will have raised $800 million on a reported valuation of $2.7 billion over its 11-year history from investors that include Alberta Investment Management Corp., DAG Ventures, GSV Capital, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Mobius Venture Capital, Madrone Capital, Morgan Stanley and New Enterprise Associates.

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    6. Green Data Center uses Direct Current to Save Energy

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      Green Data Center uses Direct Current to Save Energy

      Some data centers use natural underground reservoirs to cool their servers and cut their power usage effectiveness (PUE), or the relationship between energy used for the computing and energy used by the building. This week, Green data center announced another potential solution to save energy: the world’s most powerful direct current (DC) data center. Since transforming energy between alternating current and direct current creates heat, Green has opted to run a portion of their servers purely on DC, reducing the transformation steps from around five to just two.

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    7. Spain's Green Power Looks for Path Through the Storm

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      Spain's Green Power Looks for Path Through the Storm
      To say Spain’s solar and wind sector has had a rough go of it lately is a bit of a sad understatement. Financial support and political have all but vanished over the last year, culminating in a full suspension of government funding at the end of January. Once viewed as the defining force behind the country’s recovery and a chance for Spain to etch out a position of real economic leadership in Europe, the renewable sector future all but evaporated.
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    8. Renewable Energy in Today's Data Center

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      As Director of Mission Critical, Ron Vokoun, DBIA, LEED AP BD+C, leads the Mission Critical Division of Gray Construction. Ron is a 24-year veteran of the construction industry with a focus on mission critical facilities and design-build. You can find him on Twitter at @RonVokoun. His previous column covered Sustainability in Today’s Data Center. Much has been said about Greenpeace’s recent “How Clean is Your Cloud?” name-and-shame campaign where the advocacy group graded the top names in the da
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    9. Renewable Energy in Today’s Data Center

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      Contrary to protests and reports from Greenpeace, a great deal of progress has been made in using forms of renewable energy by the leading companies in the data center industry, writes Ron Vokoun of Gray Construction. Items to consider when evaluating renewable energy, such as cost, the return on...
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    12. Tech Giants, Facing Pressure for a Clean Cloud, Make it Rain with Green Data Centers

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      Tech Giants, Facing Pressure for a Clean Cloud, Make it Rain with Green Data Centers

      “No trees were killed in the sending of this message. However, a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.” It’s a fun e-mail footer that shows up occasionally in place of the rather smug variation, “Consider the environment before printing this e-mail.” It also pokes a little fun at the fallacy that digital content is somehow exempt from harm to the environment. Regardless of whether an e-mail may save a small fraction of resources over a piece of paper, it’s important to understand that as more of modern life happens in the digital cloud, there is still an environmental cost.

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    13. Are IT Data Centers Emerging as a 'Killer App' for Green Power? Part 2

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      Are IT Data Centers Emerging as a 'Killer App' for Green Power? Part 2
      IT companies are increasingly exploring a wide range of green power solutions in response to growing energy use at their data centers and increased scrutiny from industry watchdogs.  In part one of this article, we described utility-provided and offsite green power options available to IT companies.  In this post, we will discuss the onsi
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    14. Apple states bold coal-free ambition for iCloud, now must explain how it will ...

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      Apple states bold coal-free ambition for iCloud, now must explain how it will ...

      Apple has made a bold claim to make all three of its data centres “coal free” and has doubled the amount of solar energy powering its data centre in North Carolina. Apple’s customers certainly appreciate boldness, and will love the ambition to be “coal free.” “All three of our data centres will be coal free, which is an industry first for anybody of our size,” Apple’s CFO Peter Oppenheimer said last Thursday when announcing that the company is doubling the amount of solar energy powering its data centre in North Carolina. This is a clear sign that Apple is listening to the 220,000 customers who have asked for a clean iCloud. Apple now needs to show those customers how it will turn that rhetoric into reality, with further action and changes to its plans.

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    15. Are IT Data Centers Emerging as a 'Killer App' for Green Power? Part 1

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      Are IT Data Centers Emerging as a 'Killer App' for Green Power? Part 1

      Last month, Greenpeace launched a series of coordinated protests at Amazon, Apple and Microsoft locations to draw attention to the companies’ use of GHG intensive fuels in powering their data centers. The protests were a follow up to their recently released report, “How Clean is Your Cloud,” which criticized the companies for expanding their data centers without regard to the source of electricity. While some have questioned the report’s details, it nonetheless highlights an important issue. Major IT and cloud computing companies have been working to improve energy efficiency in their data centers, and yet mitigation of GHG impacts from power use has lagged. This matters, because recent growth of the internet and cloud-based computing is resulting in rapid proliferation of data centers and massive incremental power requirements.

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    16. Hydrogen-Powered Data Centers?

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      Hydrogen-Powered Data Centers?

      Although hydrogen generally doesn’t come up in a discussion of alternative energy sources, it is a topic relevant to cleaner energy use. So, what’s the difference, and what is hydrogen’s potential role in the data center? Apple, for instance—in addition to building a 20 megawatt solar farm—is also planning a large hydrogen fuel cell project at its Maiden, North Carolina, facility. Can hydrogen sate the data center industry’s ever growing power appetite? Hydrogen: A Storage Medium To get a good idea of the basic properties of hydrogen, just think of the Hindenburg: the giant German airship (dirigible) that plunged to the Earth in flames in 1937. The airship gained its lift from hydrogen gas: a very light (i.e., not dense), inflammable gas. Although hydrogen is plentiful (think water, hydrocarbons and so on), it is seldom found in its diatomic elemental form (H2). So ...

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    17. Top 10 Phat Startups of 2012

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      Top 10 Phat Startups of 2012

      There’s nothing wrong with making phone apps or mobile games. But Jamie Goldstein thinks that startups — and their backers — should attack bigger, meatier problems. So, while many people talk up the virtues of lean startups, Goldstein thinks it’s time to focus on companies willing to take big risk — and it is risky to attack big problems. These companies are what Goldstein, a general partner at North Bridge Venture Partners, calls Phat startups. 

      Here are Goldstein’s Top 10 Phat Startups in no particular order. (Full disclosure: five of the 10 are North Bridge affiliated companies and they’ve been designated with NBVP.)

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    18. It’s not easy being green: Data center edition

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      It’s not easy being green: Data center edition

      Building sustainable data centers is hard — especially if you’re trying to do it in office space in Houston. Plus, the idea of operating some kind of power-generation plant for offering renewable energy such as solar or biogas is a scary prospect for data center operators. These were among the key takeaways (along with a few less-obvious lessons) from a panel on sustainable data centers at the Open Compute Summit held today in San Antonio, Texas.

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    19. EasyStreet Keeps Its Green Data Center Trouble-Free With VYCON Clean Energy ...

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      EasyStreet Keeps Its Green Data Center Trouble-Free With VYCON Clean Energy ...

      Located in the beautiful Northwest—one of the greenest locales in North America—cloud, managed services and colocation provider EasyStreet Online Services, Inc., understands the need to make its data center operations as “green” as possible. Using wind power and flywheel energy storage, EasyStreet has a long-standing green commitment and seized the opportunity to be a beacon of how to build energy-efficient data centers. Situated in Beaverton, Oregon, EasyStreet recently built a new SAS 70 (the Statement on Auditing Standards No. 70) Type II audited data center and also finished an energy-saving retrofit to its first data center. EasyStreet buys 100 percent renewable power offsets for both data centers as part of the Portland General Electric Clean Wind Program. “Three years ago we started buying wind offset credits for our first data center.

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    22. Apple slaps back at Greenpeace for dirty-cloud report

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      Apple slaps back at Greenpeace for dirty-cloud report

      A day after being criticized by Greenpeace for its energy practices, Apple said Greenpeace's estimates for power use at the company's latest data center are much too high. Apple said that its data center now under construction in North Carolina will use about 20 megawatts at full capacity. Greenpeace put the estimate at 100 megawatts. Greenpeace gave Apple, Amazon, and other companies low marks for locating their data centers in areas that rely heavily on coal and "dangerous nuclear." Those companies also scored lower than competitors, including Google and Yahoo, because they disclose less information on energy use. Before publishing its report yesterday, Greenpeace shared its estimate for the power Apple's North Carolina power plant would use based on the size of the investment and size of the facility. Apple (and Amazon) told Greenpeace the number was incorrect but didn't offer a more accurate number.

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    23. Microsoft Wants Data Centres To Power Themselves

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      Microsoft Wants Data Centres To Power Themselves

      Microsoft wants to change how the industry powers data centres by integrating them with full-scale power plants, two company executives wrote in a blog post yesterday. According to Christian Belady, general manager of data centre services, and Vijay Gill, senior director of network engineering, data centres of the future will feature renewable power generation on the premises, completely eliminating transmission losses. Data into energy Today, Microsoft’s cloud supports more than one billion customers and 20 million businesses in 76 countries. Its data centres are powered by one of the world’s largest fibre optic backbones, providing more than 3.5 terabits per second of capacity to more than 1200 networks.

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    24. Amazon, Microsoft low on Greenpeace clean-energy 'cloud' index

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      Amazon, Microsoft low on Greenpeace clean-energy 'cloud' index

      Greenpeace is releasing today its ratings on how clean or dirty tech companies' clouds are, and among those it dings are two local giants: Amazon.com and Microsoft. "Cloud" refers to storing data and applications on remote servers and data centers, which users can access through the Internet. That's in contrast with the more traditional method of storage in a company's own servers or mainframes. Greenpeace's report looks at 14 big tech companies' data centers and estimates how much power they need, as well as what type of energy — "clean" or "dirty" — is used to supply that power. The two main sources of dirty energy Greenpeace listed are coal and nuclear.

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