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    1. Large Reno Project to Generate Its Own Power

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      Large Reno Project to Generate Its Own Power
      Data centers are in the business of supplying power, and lots of it. But that usually means creating a mission-critical environment supported by electricity from a local utility. An ambitious new project near Reno, Nevada plans to expand the data center development model to include massive on-site power generation from multiple sources in addition to a power feed from the local utility. The Reno Technology Park is a 2,200 acre property being developed by the Unique Infrastructure Group, which plans to provide at least 300 megawatts of on-site power generation from natural gas, along with on-site renewable energy sources that could provide an additional 140 megawatts. The developers believe the abundant supply of land and power can support up to 1.5 million square feet of data center space, built over time, with the first facilities coming online in early 2012.
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    2. With NC Site, Facebook Rebuffs Greenpeace

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      With NC Site, Facebook Rebuffs Greenpeace
      Facebook isn’t going to let Greenpeace push its data centers around. That’s the clear conclusion from Facebook’s decision to locate its second company-built data center in North Carolina. The social network has been under relentless pressure from Greenpeace to build its data centers in areas where it can use renewable energy to power its servers. Facebook’s choice of North Carolina shows that the company continues to see energy efficient facilities as the best way to reduce its carbon impact, rather than placing data centers near renewable energy sources. In recent weeks, Facebook has published several case studies of energy efficiency projects that have reduced the carbon impact of the company’s data centers.
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      Mentions: Greenpeace Yahoo Facebook

    4. Cloud computing is making IT greener

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      Cloud computing is making IT greener
      Cloud computing is becoming a catalyst for greener computing. It can reduce the amount of energy companies expend in IT, and the economics of running a large data center is driving providers to find innovative new ways to reduce energy costs. My colleagues at ZDNET caught wind of Microsoft sponsored research, which determined that companies would save on direct energy costs by outsourcing IT to a cloud provider (such as its own Azure platform).
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      Mentions: Amazon.com Google Accenture

    5. Web Host Domaincom Claims Worlds Greenest Hosting Plans

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      Web Host Domaincom Claims Worlds Greenest Hosting Plans
      Web hosting provider Domain.com (www.domain.com) announced on Sunday that it has introduced what it calls “the world’s most eco-friendly web hosting plans,” combining a variety of efforts into a push to make its services the greenest. The company says the services are backed by 150 percent wind power offset, the planting of trees for each new account, and the recycling and reuse of computer equipment. “Domain.com’s updated hosting plans reflect an aggressive commitment to do what we can to help the planet be more environmentally sustainable,” says brand manager David Andrews, quoted in the company’s press release. “Our customers can also show their commitment by displaying wind-powered hosting badges on their websites to let visitors know their websites are eco-friendly.”
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      Mentions: Microsoft Corp

    6. Google Makes Its Case for Wind Power

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      Google Inc., the Web company that a decade ago used engineering prowess to conquer the nascent online advertising market, is now aiming technology and its cash pile at another fledgling industry: offshore wind farming. The company said yesterday that it’s investing in a $5 billion underwater network that can channel electricity from wind turbines scattered off the Atlantic coast, enough to light up 1.9 million homes from New York to Virginia.
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      Mentions: Natural Resources Defense Council Google Eric Schmidt

    7. Google Funds Wind Power Infrastructure

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      Google Funds Wind Power Infrastructure
      Google announced on Monday it has provided start-up funding for an ambitious transmission cable project designed to link wind farms along the north-east coast of the US. The Atlantic Wind Connection (AWC) backbone is planned to pass down the US coast from New Jersey to Virginia, and is designed to link up to 6,000MW of offshore wind turbines, or enough energy to serve about 1.9 million households, according to Google.
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    8. Google's renewable energy investment pays off, finds 18,890 MW of Geothermal Power

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      Google's renewable energy investment pays off, finds 18,890 MW of Geothermal Power
      Geothermal, unlike other renewable energy resources, can be easily used for 24/7 baseload power — that is, it doesn’t sag and surge with the sun and the wind, which is a problem with solar panels and wind turbines. Geothermal projects are on the rise, although venture capital and private equity investors haven’t yet shown much interest in the capital-intensive sector. Companies tackling geothermal power range from the startup Vancouver-based Magma Energy, which went public last year, to geothermal giants like Ormat Technologies. Google also has an internal solar technology project, as well as an energy-trading subsidiary, Google Energy, which bought 114 MW of wind energy via a wind farm in Iowa owned by NextEra Energy Resources. Google is likely shopping for more clean power to provide its data centers’ vast energy needs and help it with its pledge to go carbon-neutral — could geothermal help with that?
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    9. U.S. signs lease for Cape Wind project

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      U.S. signs lease for Cape Wind project
      U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on Wednesday formally signed the nation's first lease for a major offshore wind project, as the Obama administration pushes forward to boost renewable energy output. The lease for the controversial $1 billion Cape Wind wind farm off the coast of Massachusetts officially ends a nine-year regulatory process for the project. "Our responsibility now is to take the lessons learned from that process--and from the growing pool of experiences with offshore wind development around the globe--and build a smart U.S. program," Salazar said at an offshore wind energy conference in Atlantic City, N.J.
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    10. A First Day Look at the Philomathia Foundation Symposium at Berkeley: Pathways to a Sustainable Energy Future

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      A First Day Look at the Philomathia Foundation Symposium at Berkeley: Pathways to a Sustainable Energy Future
      At the opening day of the Philomathia Foundation Symposium at Berkeley: Pathways to a Sustainable Energy Future, the audience learned the following three facts: as a result of carbon emissions from human activity, our planet’s climate is changing faster than models have predicted; improved energy efficiency alone is not enough to fix the problem, therefore new breakthroughs in sustainable energy technologies are needed; however, as a nation, we spend more money on potato chips than we do on sustainable energy research and development. Graham Fleming (photo by Peg Skorpinski) “The provision of sustainable energy is the defining problem of the 21st century, one that presents a challenge of unprecedented scale. Decisions we make now will influence the planet for thousands of years, and dictate our quality of life in both the near and long term,” said Graham Fleming, Vice Chancellor for Research at the University of California (UC) Berkeley ...
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      Mentions: United Kingdom Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory MIT

    11. Energy Tax Incentive Legislation Promises Green Jobs

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      Energy Tax Incentive Legislation Promises Green Jobs
      Senate Energy & Natural Resources Chairman Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.) and Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) teamed up on Wednesday to introduce legislation providing tax incentives to the energy sector, The Hill reports. The bill, the Advanced Energy Tax Incentive Act of 2010, focuses on building and industrial energy efficiency, domestic manufacturing, emerging clean energy technologies and carbon mitigation, the Washington Independent Reports. The legislation would enables home and business owners to defray upfront costs of investing in energy-saving technologies, including performance-based tax credits for whole home retrofits. It would make $2.5 billion in tax credits available to manufacturers dealing with clean renewable energy or enhanced energy efficiency products.
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    12. Iron, Power, and Cloud Computing: Let's Get Real

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      Iron, Power, and Cloud Computing: Let's Get Real
      I'm the least sure of opinions that people are most sure of. And I'm supposed to be writing about Cloud Computing, not geopolitical debate. Whether we like it or not, these two things are intertwined, because the fundamental underlying all things Cloud is energy: its use, its price, and the competition for it. Most people have very strong opinions about energy--how we produce it and use it--and in my opinion, those opinions often cloud the debate. If you hate coal or nuclear power, you really hate them. If you are contemptuous of wind and solar, you are really contemptuous of them. But let's pretend we are the hypothetical Martians of old, and gaze down on Planet Earth to examine its needs dispassionately.
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    13. Yahoo’s New Facility Shows Trend, Growing Importance of Green Data Centers

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      Yahoo’s New Facility Shows Trend, Growing Importance of Green Data Centers
      Yahoo unveiled a new data center in Lockport, New York today, boasting one of the most energy-efficient data centers in the world – and exemplifying the push among big Internet companies to green data storage. The new data center boasts some nice stats — the company says it will use 40 percent less energy and 95 percent less water than conventional data centers. Yahoo says its power-use effectiveness (PUE) for the facility is 1.08, which means 92 percent of power consumption goes towards actual computing, not ancillary things like lighting and cooling. The data center will powered in part by hydropower and reduce energy costs to one cent for cooling for every dollar spent on electricity. It was built in part with a $9.9 million grant from the Department of Energy. The issue of green data storage is one that’s growing in importance. The EPA has expressed concern about ...
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    14. China Beats U.S. on Renewable-Energy Investor Ranking

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      China Beats U.S. on Renewable-Energy Investor Ranking
      China overtook the U.S. to lead a quarterly index of the most attractive countries for renewable energy projects for the first time, according to a list compiled by the global accounting firm Ernst & Young. After sharing the lead with the U.S. in the first quarter, China moved ahead of the world’s largest economy to rank as the most appealing nation for investing in wind and solar power projects, according to the report released today. The move follows the failure of U.S. Congress to pass legislation that would have required utilities to use clean energy. The Asian nation, the world’s biggest energy consumer, has set itself a goal of generating 15 percent of its electricity from renewable sources by 2020. It almost doubled consumer subsidies for renewable-power generation in the second half of last year to $545 million, the most recent period reported.
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    15. HSBC Predicts Low Carbon Energy Market to Triple

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      HSBC Predicts Low Carbon Energy Market to Triple
      The world’s low-carbon energy market is likely to triple by 2020, HSBC analysts forecast on Monday, saying that rising concerns about resource scarcity would support broad consensus on the threat of climate change Reuters reports. The electric vehicle market would benefit most, growing more than 20 times by 2020 to reach $473 billion, said HSBC’s “Sizing [...]
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    16. Data Centers Target Higher Energy Efficiency, Lower Carbon Footprint

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      Data Centers Target Higher Energy Efficiency, Lower Carbon Footprint
      Data centers across the nation are implementing a host of initiatives aimed at energy efficiency and reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, ranging from HVAC optimization to being powered by renewable energy sources. As an example, Georgia Data Center, an 80,000-square-foot data center located in Atlanta, Georgia, was designed to use 40 to 50 fewer air conditioning units than typical data centers. The data center worked with WayPoint Systems to integrate an efficient building system and to ensure that the HVAC system operates efficiently to maximize its energy performance.
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    17. Facebook Responds to Greenpeace’s Coal Criticism

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      Facebook Responds to Greenpeace’s Coal Criticism
      Facebook wants to un-friend Greenpeace. Yesterday, the executive director of Greenpeace wrote a letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg asking him to create a plan to phase out the use of coal in powering Facebook’s data center, which is under construction in Oregon in the footprint of a utility that generates the majority of its electricity from coal. Now Facebook has responded to the criticism on Greenpeace’s website (hat tip Data Center Knowledge), defending the choice to build the data center in Oregon and explaining that the location is particularly good for energy efficiency.
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    19. Greenpeace Asks Facebook To ‘Unfriend’ Coal

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      Greenpeace Asks Facebook To ‘Unfriend’ Coal
      Greenpeace has intensified its campaign against Facebook’s use of coal-fired electricity, with a letter to Mark Zuckerberg, and a Facebook group that now has half-a-million members. The head of the environmental campaign group has written directly to the boss of the social network giant, following news that Facebook plans to double the size of a data centre in Oregon which has been criticised for using coal-based electricity. At the same time, 500,000 people have signed up to ask Facebook to “unfriend coal“.
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    20. AT&T expands corporate solar capacity

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      AT&T expands corporate solar capacity
      Telecommunications carrier AT&T is working with utility company SunEdison to activate up to 2 megawatts of solar capacity in California by the end of the second quarter of 2011. The deal is part of AT&T’s program to aggressively step up its solar investments moving forward. The first site under the deal with SunEdison is being activated on a rooftop in San Diego. The other sites will be located in Dunnigan, Commerce, Mojave, Santa Ana and West Sacramento.
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    21. Clean tech faces muddy future

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      Clean tech faces muddy future
      Southwest Washington’s emerging clean-technology industry could face long-term setbacks if the U.S. Congress fails to pass a comprehensive energy policy this year, state and local leaders say. Both the House and Senate this session have debated energy bills that seek to regulate greenhouse gas emissions in some form, whether by establishing a carbon cap-and-trade system or a national renewable energy standard. But the proposals have so far failed to move forward.
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    24. Google adds 20 year 114 MW Renewable Energy Purchase to its Green Data Center strategy, is electricity hedging a future for data centers?

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      Google adds 20 year 114 MW Renewable Energy Purchase to its Green Data Center strategy, is electricity hedging a future for data centers?
      When we decided in 2007 to voluntarily become carbon neutral, our intent was to take responsibility for our carbon emissions and promote sustainable environmental solutions. We approach this goal in three ways. First, we minimize our energy consumption; in fact, we’ve built some of the world’s most energy efficient data centers. Second, we seek to power our facilities with renewable energy, like we did in Mountain View, CA with one of the largest corporate solar installations. Finally, we purchase carbon offsets for the emissions we cannot directly eliminate. We just completed a substantial 20-year green Power Purchase Agreement that allows us to take responsibility for our footprint and foster true growth in the renewable energy sector. On July 30 we will begin purchasing the clean energy from 114 megawatts of wind generation at the NextEra Energy Resources Story County II facility in Iowa at a predetermined rate for ...
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