1. Articles mentioning both Apple and Facebook

    1-24 of 133 // 1 2 3 4 5 6 »

    1. A more sustainable cloud through transparency & change

      Explore GigaOM (May 25 2012) Construction , Power and Cooling , Fuel Cell , Solar

      A more sustainable cloud through transparency & change ...n site in Maiden, NC. The industry is starting to sit up and listen. A company like Google, Amazon, Facebook or Apple has enormous clout in the areas they operate. These tech giants are big fish to the local utility f... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Apple   Greenpeace   Amazon.com

    2. Are IT Data Centers Emerging as a 'Killer App' for Green Power? Part 2

      Explore Renewable Energy World (May 24 2012) Construction , Fossil Fuel , Fuel Cell , Solar , Wind , Cloud Computing

      Are IT Data Centers Emerging as a 'Killer App' for Green Power? Part 2 ... And multiple onsite renewable energy solutions may be deployed simultaneously, as is the case with Apple’s Maiden, North Carolina data center, which has planned solar and fuel cell deployments to meet 60 ......to the data center annually. Other companies deploying solar at data centers include eBay (665 kW), Facebook (100 kW), i/o Data Centers (4.5 MW), McGraw-Hill Companies (14.1 MW), and Quality Technology Servic... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Apple   Greenpeace   Facebook

    3. Apple’s data center in Maiden gets approval for fuel-cell plant

      Explore News, Sports, Business, Politics (May 23 2012) Construction , Fossil Fuel , Fuel Cell

      Apple’s data center in Maiden gets approval for fuel-cell plant State officials on Wednesday gave Apple the go-ahead to build the nation’s largest privately owned fuel cell facility at a data center that...... and service. Two congressional committees are looking into the troubled initial public offering of Facebook Inc., aides said Wednesday. A big final-hour comeback pulled the Dow Jones industrial average nearl... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Apple   Greenpeace   Europe

    4. Do You Want the Good News First?

      Explore The New York Times (May 21 2012) Fuel Cell , Cloud Computing

      Do You Want the Good News First? ...below, and then making sure people execute them. The leading companies driving this trend — Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, Google, Apple, LinkedIn, Zynga and Twitter — are all headquartered and listed in America. Facebook, which didn’t exist nine years ago, just went public at a valuation of nearly $105 billion — two we... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Apple   The New York Times   Amazon.com

    5. Apple's iCloud Data Center to Use Only Green Power

      Explore eweek.com (May 19 2012) Construction , Fuel Cell , Geothermal , Solar

      Apple's iCloud Data Center to Use Only Green Power ...uncement comes a month after Greenpeace, in a report entitled “How Green Is Your Cloud,” criticized Apple for lagging behind other tech giants, like Google and Facebook, due to its use of coal-generated power. In conjunction with the release of the report, Greenpeace ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Apple   Greenpeace   Amazon.com

    6. Top 5 Data Center Stories, Week of May 18th

      Explore Data Center Knowledge (May 19 2012) Construction , Fuel Cell , Solar , Cloud Computing

      Top 5 Data Center Stories, Week of May 18th ... detailed its findings this week at the Uptime Symposium 2012 at the Santa Clara Convention Center. Apple: iDataCenter Power Will Be 100% Green – Apple is doubling the size of its already-huge solar array at its data center in North Carolina, buying a......nter news by subscribing to our RSS feed and daily e-mail updates, or by following us on Twitter or Facebook or join our LinkedIn Group – Data Center Knowledge. (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Apple   Data Center Knowledge   Facebook

    7. Are IT Data Centers Emerging as a 'Killer App' for Green Power? Part 1

      Explore Renewable Energy World (May 18 2012) Construction , Emissions , Fossil Fuel , Wind , Cloud Computing , Servers

      Are IT Data Centers Emerging as a 'Killer App' for Green Power? Part 1 Last month, Greenpeace launched a series of coordinated protests at Amazon, Apple and Microsoft locations to draw attention to the companies’ use of GHG intensive fuels in powering ......uce the emissions potential of a prospective facility. After Greenpeace’s “unfriend coal” campaign, Facebook adopted a siting policy that gives preference to states with access to a clean renewable energy sup... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Apple   Greenpeace   Amazon.com

    8. Apple: iDataCenter Power Will Be 100% Green

      Explore Data Center Knowledge (May 17 2012) Construction , Fuel Cell , Solar

      Apple: iDataCenter Power Will Be 100% Green ...addressed data center professionals at the annual Uptime Symposium, and said its activism targeting Apple and Facebook was designed to prompt the industry to wield its power to alter the energy paradigm. “You have a ro... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Apple   Greenpeace   Greenpeace International

    9. In Oregon, Mission West Looks to the East

      Explore Data Center Knowledge (May 15 2012) Construction , Power and Cooling , Cloud Computing

      In Oregon, Mission West Looks to the East ...sboro, a tech hub that grew up around a major Intel campus – and the small town of Prinevlle, where Facebook and Apple are building major data centers. Can that success extend to Ontario? Hardin, an industry veteran wh... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Apple   Intel   Facebook

    10. iCloud Revamp May Introduce Social Features

      Explore TechWeekEurope UK (May 15 2012) Fuel Cell

      iCloud Revamp May Introduce Social Features ... allow users to share sets of photos with other iCloud users, who will be able to comment on them – Apple with a touch of Facebook, it would seem. Video sync The report adds that Apple is additionally working on a feature that will allow users to sync videos via iCloud, as well as “N... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Apple   Greenpeace   Amazon.com

    11. Data Centers Scale Up Their Solar Power

      Explore Data Center Knowledge (May 14 2012) Construction , Fuel Cell , Solar , Cloud Computing

      Data Centers Scale Up Their Solar Power ... as well as some links to early implementations that paved the way for larger arrays to follow: + Apple: The maker of the iPad and iPhone plans to build a 20-megawatt solar power facility to support the...... This solar installation will produce 924,013 kilowatt hours (kWh) of clean electricity annually. + Facebook – Facebook has installed a large array of solar panels at its new data center in Prineville, Oregon, which wil... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Apple   Cisco   DuPont Fabros

    12. Microsoft gets earth-friendly, goes carbon neutral

      Explore Technology News (May 9 2012) Construction , Fossil Fuel , Cloud Computing

      Microsoft gets earth-friendly, goes carbon neutral ...osoft will purchase renewable energy and carbon offsets," Turner said. Leading tech companies, like Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Microsoft, use massive amounts of energy, electricity and power. Greenpeace estimate... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Apple   Greenpeace   Amazon.com

    13. Top 5 Data Center Stories, Week of May 5

      Explore Data Center Knowledge (May 5 2012) Construction , Fuel Cell , Cloud Computing

      Top 5 Data Center Stories, Week of May 5 ...on Data Center Knowledge this past week. Enjoy! iDataCenter Will Use Landfill-Powered Bloom Boxes – Apple will use biogas from landfills to generate electricity for its massive data center in North Carolin......nter news by subscribing to our RSS feed and daily e-mail updates, or by following us on Twitter or Facebook or join our LinkedIn Group – Data Center Knowledge. (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Apple   Europe   Digital Realty

    14. It’s not easy being green: Data center edition

      Explore GigaOM (May 2 2012) Construction , Fuel Cell , Wind , Cloud Computing

      It’s not easy being green: Data center edition ...it held today in San Antonio, Texas. Bill Weihl, manager of energy efficiency and sustainability at Facebook and the former energy czar at Google, moderated the panel that also featured the head of sustainabi......ng she thought about. Koomey, however, called the idea that a data center operator has to follow in Apple’s footsteps to operate their own generation (Apple is using Bloom’s boxes to power part of ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Apple   Intel   Google

    15. Nordic Countries Increasingly Attractive as Sites for Data Centers

      Explore The New York Times (Apr 30 2012)

      Nordic Countries Increasingly Attractive as Sites for Data Centers ...990s, the Nordic countries are relative newcomers. But they have joined the contest at a time when Apple, Microsoft, Facebook and Google, among other companies, are competing with one another to create more energy efficient o... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Apple   The New York Times   Iceland

    16. Green Data Centers: Is It Worth Running a “Losing” Race?

      Explore Triple Pundit (Apr 26 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing

      Green Data Centers: Is It Worth Running a “Losing” Race? ...ace, have alternately held up the world’s largest IT companies and data center operators, including Apple, Google and Microsoft, for public applause or chastisement based on their energy usage, energy poli......h have become more active in supporting policies to drive greater renewable energy investment. * Facebook, one of the largest online destinations with over 800 million users around the world, has now commi... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Apple   Greenpeace   Amazon.com

    17. Greenpeace Pranks Apple at Flagship Stores, Calls for an End to the Coal-Powered Cloud

      Explore TreeHugger (Apr 24 2012) Power and Cooling , Fossil Fuel , Fuel Cell

      Greenpeace Pranks Apple at Flagship Stores, Calls for an End to the Coal-Powered Cloud Apple has responded to the Greenpeace campaign by disputing numbers in the report and claiming its new No...... and Amazon for using dirty energy sources to power their data centers, while praising the likes of Facebook and Google for making a dedication to renewables. It's a smart strategy—each of these companies' re... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Apple   Greenpeace   Amazon.com

    18. Apple’s NC data center: transparency and the pressure to go green

      Explore GigaOM (Apr 24 2012) Construction , Fuel Cell

      Apple’s NC data center: transparency and the pressure to go green ...e as the global power draw for data centers tops 31 gigawatts, equal to about 45 coal power plants. Apple presumably made the decision to build in North Carolina, just as Facebook has gone to Oregon, because of cheap power. But in the last few years so much attention has focused... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Apple   Greenpeace   Amazon.com

    19. Apple Responds To Greenpeace Criticism

      Explore TechWeekEurope UK (Apr 24 2012) Construction , Fossil Fuel , Fuel Cell

      Apple Responds To Greenpeace Criticism Apple has decided not to remain silent after Greenpeace criticised it, along with Amazon and Microsoft, i......of the town of Prineville, Oregon, where it plans to build “a much larger facility, similar to what Facebook has already built”, Jason Carr, the town’s economic development manager, told Wired. In its report ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Apple   Greenpeace   Amazon.com

    20. Happy Earth Day? No, Let's Get Angry! by Peter Judge

      Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Apr 22 2012)

      Happy Earth Day? No, Let's Get Angry! by Peter Judge ...ed a set of Green Enterprise IT awards honouring, some very different Green IT approaches including Facebook for its Open Compute project (sharing custom-built server designs) and Bell Canada for achieving a ...... shelf servers. Greenpeace, meanwhile, got the coverage with another attack on cloud providers (and Apple in particular) urging them to use clean electricity. The first Earth Day was held in 1970 (led by t... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Apple   Greenpeace   Uptime Institute

    21. Top 5 Data Center Stories, Week of April 20

      Explore Data Center Knowledge (Apr 21 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing

      Top 5 Data Center Stories, Week of April 20 ... center, about one-fifth the amount estimated by Greenpeace in a report that is sharply critical of Apple and other data center operators for relying upon “dirty” energy sources to power their cloud comput......ine and has begun serving live traffic, the company said Thursday. The new server farm will provide Facebook with additional IT capacity to support its growing audience of more than 850 million users. Microso... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Apple   Greenpeace   Data Center Knowledge

    22. NC Facebook Data Center Officially Goes Online

      Explore DailyTech (Apr 20 2012) Construction

      NC Facebook Data Center Officially Goes Online ... Clean Energy Index score and a whopping 55.1 percent coal usage. In the same categories listed for Facebook, Apple received grades of "D," "F," "D" and "D." Apple argued that it was making a valid effort with its Maiden, North Carolina data center, which it laun... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Apple   Greenpeace   Intel

    23. Apple will invest $250M in new Oregon data center

      Explore AppleInsider (Apr 20 2012) Construction

      ...o be a relatively small 10,000 square feet. It will start as eight modular data center units before Apple will build a bigger facility similar to a nearby server farm owned by the social networking site Facebook. Facebook, in fact, was said to have helped draw Apple's attention to the city in central Oregon. Officials at Facebook provided representatives of Apple with a tour of their facility in ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Apple   Greenpeace   Facebook

    24. Apple and Greenpeace in War of Words over Dirty Clouds

      Explore Datamation (Apr 20 2012) Construction , Power and Cooling , Fossil Fuel , Fuel Cell , Cloud Computing

      Apple and Greenpeace in War of Words over Dirty Clouds ...he largest of their kind in the country." And blunting the coal-laced criticism that first ensnared Facebook in Prineville, Ore., Apple adds that its Maiden, NC data center "will be joined next year by our new facility in Oregon runnin... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Apple   Greenpeace   Amazon.com

    25. 1-24 of 133 // 1 2 3 4 5 6 »