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

      Explore The Seattle Times (Apr 17 2012) Construction , Carbon Footprint , Emissions , Fossil Fuel , Wind , Cloud Computing

      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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      Mentions:   Apple   Greenpeace   Amazon.com

    2. Nintendo celebrates opening of new headquarters in Redmond

      Explore The Seattle Times (May 14 2010)

      Nintendo celebrates opening of new headquarters in Redmond Nintendo of America opened the new headquarters of its North American operations in Redmond Thursday — a gleaming, modern facility with all kinds of environmentally friendly touches throughout. The 300,000-square-foot-building, which houses about 650 employees — roughly half the company's Washington staff — is a low-slung, four-story structure that replaces one of the company's other three buildings constructed in the early 1980s. It's on a 10-acre site on the Nintendo campus, just west of State Route 520. (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Nintendo   Microsoft Corp

    3. VMWare opens a green data center in Wenatchee

      Explore The Seattle Times (Oct 5 2009) Cloud Computing , Servers

      VMWare opens a green data center in Wenatchee While a tax law prompted Microsoft to move its cloud business Azure out of Washington state, the state just attracted a software company, VMWare, to build its data center in Wenatchee. VMWare, a software company and Microsoft competitor in Palo Alto, Calif., opened a 61,000-square-foot data center in Wenatchee in January to consolidate several smaller labs and data centers the company was using to run and test its virtualization software. The company's chief executive officer Paul Maritz, is a former top exeuctive at Microsoft. (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Microsoft Corp

    4. Microsoft cloud computing gets down to earth

      Explore The Seattle Times (Jul 14 2009) Cloud Computing

      Microsoft cloud computing gets down to earth As U.S. companies start exploring doing some of this computing this year, a school system on the other side of the globe has already leapt into the cloud. Ethiopia is rolling out 250,000 laptops to its schoolteachers nationwide, all running on Microsoft's cloud platform, called Azure. The laptops will allow teachers to download curriculum, keep track of academic records and securely transfer student data throughout the education system, without having to build a support system of hardware and software to connect them. "They're going to be able to leapfrog ahead of most companies in the U.S.," said Danny Kim, chief technology officer of FullArmor, a Boston company working on the software deployment in the Ethiopian project. (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Amazon.com   Google   Bob Muglia