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    1. E.ON and RWE scrap UK nuclear power plans

      Explore Telegraph.co.uk (Mar 29 2012)

      E.ON and RWE scrap UK nuclear power plans

      The companies had been working on proposals for £15bn of new nuclear power stations at Wylfa on the Isle of Anglesey and at Oldbury-on-Severn in Gloucestershire, through their joint venture, Horizon Nuclear Power, established in 2009. This morning they announced that the financial difficulties facing both their parent companies meant they would not proceed with the developments and would seek a new owner for Horizon.

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    2. Global server farms around the world

      Explore Telegraph.co.uk (Oct 26 2011) Solar , Servers

      Global server farms around the world Dalles, Oregon (Google) Built in 2006, this was one of the first server farms to be built ‘from the ground up’, at a cost of £375m ($600m). Situated close to the 2000MW Dalles Dam on the Columbia River, it has the benefits of green, reliable power, and temperatures varying between 30F (-1C) in Winter and highs of 88F (31C) in summer. Prineville, Oregon (Facebook) Facebook opened its first self-built server farm here on October 19, using an air-cooling system to reduce power usage. Nonetheless, Facebook has been criticised by Greenpeace because the power it does use if 63pc coal generated. (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Apple   Greenpeace   Iceland

    3. Facebook to build server farm: Q&A

      Explore Telegraph.co.uk (Oct 26 2011) Cloud Computing , Servers

      Facebook to build server farm: Q&A Facebook is to build a multi-million pound server farmer on the edge of the Arctic circle to house all its computer servers. But what is a server farm and how much power do they burn? What exactly is a server farm? A server farm brings together hundreds of thousands of servers — the core of a normal personal computer — stacked in racks, linked by routers, and cooled and powered centrally. Up until about decade ago, servers were kept in dedicated rooms at individual companies. But with the growth of the web, companies like Google, Facebook, Apple and Amazon have started building giant centralised server farms, each containing hundreds of thousands of computers. As more and more people save their data online in the ‘cloud’, rather than on their home computers, there is a growing need for more server farms. (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Apple   Amazon.com   Iceland

    4. Los Angeles swelters in record-breaking heat wave

      Explore Telegraph.co.uk (Sep 28 2010)

      Los Angeles swelters in record-breaking heat wave Downtown Los Angeles hit 113F (45 Celsius) for a few minutes at about 12:15pm local time, breaking the former record of 112F (44 Celsius) set on June 26, 1990. Temperature records for the area date to 1877. The historic moment came during a series of days well over 100F (38 Celsius) in many cities ranging from Anaheim, home of Disneyland, to San Luis Obispo on the usually balmy Central Coast. Firefighters carried heavy hoses up hills to battle a small but persistent brush fire west of Los Angeles in Thousand Oaks while other workers in less strenuous jobs also struggled through the day (Read Full Article)