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    1. An Early Look At Facebook's Data Center In The Frozen North Of Sweden

      Explore The Business Insider (Jan 31 2012) Construction , Microblogging

      An Early Look At Facebook's Data Center In The Frozen North Of Sweden

      Last year, Facebook announced plans to build its second data center in the north of Sweden. The cold air means that Facebook won't have to spend as much money on cooling, which reduces overall energy costs -- by far the biggest expense in running a data center. (Video)

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    2. Ev Williams Out As Twitter CEO -- COO Dick Costolo Takes Over

      Explore The Business Insider (Oct 6 2010)

      Ev Williams Out As Twitter CEO -- COO Dick Costolo Takes Over Ev Williams is stepping down from his role as Twitter CEO. COO Dick Costolo be taking over as CEO. Costolo joined Twitter in September 2009. Williams became CEO when co-founder Jack Dorsey was pushed out of the company. Williams run at the top of Twitter was mixed. The service exploded in popularity, but it still has a lot of problems. For instance, Twitter was down for a few minutes right around the time the company announced this news. And we still don't have access to the new design of Twitter.com, weeks after it debuted. (Read Full Article)

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    3. It's Not Easy Being Green, But Datapipe Is Making A Solid Effort

      Explore The Business Insider (Apr 13 2010)

      It's Not Easy Being Green, But Datapipe Is Making A Solid Effort "Data centers" and "clean energy" are usually contradictory terms. A server facility contains rows after row of servers running 24/7 and refrigerated to the hilt -- by definition, an energy-intensive operation. In fact, data centers use an estimated 1.5% of the nation's electricity consumption already and the EPA expects their usage to increase by 12 percent annually. Datapipe, a leading provider of managed hosting and IT services -- and Business Insider's hosting partner -- is taking steps to change that. Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/sponsor-post-datapipe?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+greensheet+%28Green+Sheet%29#ixzz0l01yfMim (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory   Datapipe

    4. China Exploring Its Own Cap And Trade Program

      Explore The Business Insider (May 1 2009) Cap and Trade , Carbon Tax

      China Exploring Its Own Cap And Trade Program A common slap against any US cap and trade or carbon tax proposal is that it doesn't matter because China, the world's biggest (and growing) CO2 emitter, doesn't plan on slowing its pollution plans. This is a problem because 1. ... (Read Full Article)

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