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    1. PODCAST: Are Clouds Green? By the BBC One Planet

      Explore BBC - Homepage (Dec 23 2011)

      PODCAST: Are Clouds Green? By the BBC One Planet Hear Tate Cantrell, Verne Global CTO and Joe Cava, Senior Director, Google Data centers talk about the cloud. Our lives are increasingly lived online - where once we had books or CDs, today we are more likely to store our data digitally with cloud computing. But the cloud has to come to earth somewhere - it's housed in data centres, giant warehouses full of servers around the world, which are often reliant on dirty energy. On this week's One Planet, we go in search of the cloud - join us in Iceland as we visit a data centre, and find out how much energy we're using with every click. (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Iceland   Verne Global   Tate Cantrell

    2. Are Clouds Green?

      Explore BBC - Homepage (Dec 20 2011)

      Are Clouds Green? This week One Planet goes in search of the cloud - the digital cloud, where we're increasingly storing our music, pictures and documents. Cloud computing might sound etheral, but the physical reality of the cloud more mundane. Our digital files are stored in data centres, giant warehouses around the world full of computer servers. The IT industry has been criticised by environmental groups for the vast amounts of energy needed to power these sites - every click uses energy somewhere. But a new breed of data centres is opening up in northern Europe - cooled by the chilly air and powered by cheap renewable energy. Facebook became the latest company to move north last month, when it announced plans to build a new data centre in northern Sweden. Join One Planet in search of the cloud in Iceland this week. We visit a former NATO air base which now houses the first ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Iceland   Europe   Google

    3. EU launches antitrust probe into alleged Google abuses

      Explore BBC - Homepage (Nov 30 2010)

      EU launches antitrust probe into alleged Google abuses The European Commission has launched an investigation into Google after other search engines complained that the firm had abused its dominant position. The EC will examine whether the world's largest search engine penalised competing services in its results. The probe follows complaints by firms including price comparison site Foundem and legal search engine ejustice.fr. Google denies the allegations but said it would work with the Commission to "address any concerns". (Read Full Article)

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