Articles mentioning both Greenpeace and Microsoft

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  1. Greenpeace Scales Dell Headquarters, Releases Greener Electronics Guide

    Explore Article environmentalleader.com (May 27 2010)

    Greenpeace Scales Dell Headquarters, Releases Greener Electronics Guide After releasing its latest Guide to Greener Electronics rankings, Greenpeace launched a campaign against computer giant Dell for backtracking on its public commitment to elimin......Ericsson, Philips, Motorola and Apple, while the bottom five ranked companies are Toshiba, Fujitsu, Microsoft, Lenovo, and Nintendo. Reader Comments There are no comments for this story. ______________________... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Netherlands   Nokia   Toshiba

  2. States Use Tax Incentives to Lure In Data Centers

    Explore Article GreenBiz.com (May 5 2010) Cloud Computing , Servers

    States Use Tax Incentives to Lure In Data Centers ...state. As Tax-News.com reports: Last year, the state rejected a proposed tax break, which prompted Microsoft to move its cloud computing platform Azure out of Washington State to another data center in the US...... plenty of incentive for data center owners to be as efficient as possible. But as the Facebook vs. Greenpeace kerfluffle pointed out, non-green data centers can be a bit of black eye, depending on who's doing ... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Amazon.com   Microsoft   Greenpeace

  3. Green:Net 2010

    Explore Article TreeHugger (Apr 30 2010) Carbon Footprint

    Green:Net 2010 Greenpeace is all about making companies who talk the talk actually walk the walk, especially when it comes to...... Following up behind Cisco was Ericsson with a score of 53, IBM with 42, and HP with 41. Google and Microsoft - who had a panel at Green:Net discussing how they're moving into home energy management, and who a... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Cisco   IBM   Greenpeace

  4. Cisco, Ericsson Top Greenpeace IT leaders ranking

    Explore Article environmentalleader.com (Apr 30 2010) Carbon Footprint

    Cisco, Ericsson Top Greenpeace IT leaders ranking Cisco and Ericsson top the latest update to Greenpeace’s Cool IT Leaderboard list, while Panasonic, Sony and Sharp rank at the bottom. Findings indicate t......p IT leaders are Cisco (62 points), Ericsson (53), IBM (42), HP (41), Fujitsu (36), Google (33) and Microsoft (31). Cisco doubled its score from the previous report by demonstrating the benefits of its gre... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Cisco   IBM   Google

  5. Data Center Greenwashing? Time Will Tell If It Was

    Explore Article Relocate (Apr 29 2010) Carbon Footprint , Emissions , Fossil Fuel , Geothermal , Cloud Computing

    Data Center Greenwashing? Time Will Tell If It Was ...ncover deceitful messaging or contradictory efforts in an organization's environmental stance. Greenpeace recently released a controversial report criticizing a number of companies for potential conflictin......et its corporate carbon reduction goals, data centers certainly being a chief priority. Last year, Microsoft built its first mega data center outside the US aimed at making better use of environmental resourc... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Iceland   Lisa Rhodes   Carbon Reduction Commitment

  6. Earth Day warning for green IT

    Explore Article UK technology news, reviews and analysis (Apr 22 2010) Carbon Footprint , Emissions , Cloud Computing

    Earth Day warning for green IT ...s. However, it appears that its ethos is still to be fully implemented in the IT industry. A recent Greenpeace report, Make IT Green argued that companies providing cloud services need to phase out the use of "...... uses just 3.8 per cent of renewable energy compared with 50.75 per cent coal and 38.7 nuclear, and Microsoft's Texas datacentre which uses just 11 per cent renewable energy. It also cited ... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   The Green Grid   IBM   Apple

  7. Equinix CTO 10 year perspective, data center changes in highly connected Internet services

    Explore Article greenm3.com (Apr 15 2010) Cloud Computing

    Equinix CTO 10 year perspective, data center changes in highly connected Internet services ...right path to Green (low carbon) Data Centers. The mass media industry will cover Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Apple data centers. But, here is a simple way to understand the future of data centers. Davi......o put their "head in the sand" and geek out are setting themselves up for unexpected reactions like Greenpeace's focus on Facebook's coal powered data center. An architectural rendering of the new Facebook data... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   United Kingdom   CA   Greenpeace

  8. Greenpeace's latest data center drive-by shooting - by doug mohney

    Explore Article Views and Opinions on Green IT (Apr 7 2010)

    Comment "Nice post Doug. I still think there's a place for Greenpeace's whistleblowing, and as an SEO-chasing journalist, I have some ..." - judgecorp

    Greenpeace's latest data center drive-by shooting - by doug mohney Not content to clean up its own usage of coal-based energy, Greenpeace decided to leverage the onslaught of iPad hype to take another hypocritical swipe at the IT sector ......le the kilowatts than current usage in 2020. It goes on to suggest that Fortune 500 companies like Microsoft, Google and IBM go influence policies to "decouple" economic growth from rising greenhouse gas emis... (Read Full Article)

    1 Comment Mentions:   Doug Mohney   IBM   Google

  9. Google, Microsoft Respond to Greenpeace

    Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Apr 5 2010) Carbon Footprint , Emissions , Cloud Computing , Servers

    Google, Microsoft Respond to Greenpeace ...ata centers are getting greener all the time. That’s the gist of the responses from Google and Microsoft to last week’s report from Greenpeace International on the environmental impact of cloud computing. The environmental group called on dat... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Greenpeace   Microsoft   Google

  10. Energy Efficiency Requires More than Just Lip Service

    Explore Article itbusinessedge.com (Apr 5 2010) Emissions

    Energy Efficiency Requires More than Just Lip Service ...define their green status, others will do it for them. A case in point is a recent report issued by Greenpeace arguing that despite housing some of the greenest technologies on Earth, massive new data centers b......despite housing some of the greenest technologies on Earth, massive new data centers being built by Microsoft, Facebook and others will increase carbon emissions because they are located in warmer southern sta... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   IBM   Microsoft   Greenpeace

  11. Hey Greenpeace, the cloud (and tech giants behind it ...

    Explore Article ZDNet Technology News (Mar 31 2010) Cloud Computing , Servers

    Hey Greenpeace, the cloud (and tech giants behind it ... ...on, Apple, Cloud computing, Datacenter, Facebook, Google, Green Tech, Hardware Infrastructure, IBM, Microsoft, Yahoo, virtualization Tags: Greenpeace, Data Center, Coal, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan Greenpeace is telling us that cloud computing will lead to a big jump in greenhouse emissions. Your Apple iPad... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Amazon.com   IBM   Google

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