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

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 ......asily and inexpensively offsetting emissions from data center electricity use. Leading IT companies Intel, Microsoft, Cisco, and Dell are among the top purchasers of RECs. In fact, Intel is top green power purchaser in the U.S., purchasing more than 2.5 ... (Read Full Article)

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In Oregon, Mission West Looks to the East

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

...ter boom have been the Portland area – especially Hillsboro, 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)

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iCloud Revamp May Introduce Social Features

Explore TechWeekEurope UK (May 15 2012) Fuel Cell

...ieve would result in a re-acceleration of Mac sales,” the wrote in a 14 May research note. “We note Apple blogs have speculated that MacBooks may be updated with a slimmer body style. Also, Intel’s most recent generation of processors, Ivy Bridge, is set to be introduced during the quarter.” Th... (Read Full Article)

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It’s not easy being green: Data center edition

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

...d of sustainability for Rackspace; someone building an HPC cluster for oil company BP; someone from Intel; and Jonathan Koomey, a consultant and energy-efficiency expert. While we are entering the age of 1......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 its ... (Read Full Article)

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

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

...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......ave now firmly embarked on. Entire countries, such as Iceland, as well IT industry leaders, such as Intel, are cases in point. The green data center market It’s estimated that data centers consume around... (Read Full Article)

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NC Facebook Data Center Officially Goes Online

Explore DailyTech (Apr 20 2012) Construction

...ployment of the v2 OpenCompute Project web servers. These servers are also some of the first to use Intel's Sandy Bridge processor. Facebook announced yesterday that its new North Carolina data center is u......in renewables and advocacy. The company who really took a beating on the Greenpeace score sheet was Apple, which had a 15.3 percent Clean Energy Index score and a whopping 55.1 percent coal ... (Read Full Article)

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Facebook Has Spent $210 Million on Oregon Data Center

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jan 30 2012) Construction

...t doesn’t mean that power is available in the right place at the right time. There are reports that Apple and at least one other large data center user have scouted locations in Prineville, as Facebook’......ers spending money in the local economy. ECONorthwest has done a similar study on the impact of Intel’s operations in Oregon. In terms of direct impact, the ECONorthwest study cites the following ... (Read Full Article)

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why Moonshot matters - by peter judge

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Nov 6 2011)

...dly versions of the ARM processor produced by Calxeda, instead of more traditional fare from AMD or Intel. The move towards lower power processors - and lots of them - is interesting. It’s a move we’ve b......rvices, social media and simple content delivery applications”. In other words, Google, Facebook, Apple, Amazon, all the big players where the data center action is. If Moonshot hits its target, it cou... (Read Full Article)

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Delayed gratification on new energy-saving chips - by Doug Mohney

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Sep 14 2011)

Intel’s Ivy Bridge chips may be delayed for up to three months, according to a couple of reports kicking ......set sounds like a big deal.  For companies planning new product launches around Ivy Bridge, such as Apple, it isn’t exactly the news they were hoping for.  As to the rest of us, so long as the delay doesn’... (Read Full Article)

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Data Center shortage is not Power, Cooling, or Network, but executives - Apple hires Microsoft's Data Center GM

Explore greenm3.com (Apr 13 2011)

...continue to do your job. Data Center shortage is not Power, Cooling, or Network, but executives - Apple hires Microsoft's Data Center GM Date Wednesday, April 13, 2011 at 12:43PM Much of what you hear a......lo who also came from Microsoft. Mike Manos is proud of his renegade action to recruit Daniel from Intel to Microsoft while he had the job that Kevin Timmons had filled and now ... (Read Full Article)

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Intel Sees Challenges in Tablets And Smartphones

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Jan 14 2011)

...traffic, particularly in such areas as virtualised and cloud-ready servers. However, he warned that Intel is missing out by not being a larger player directly in the tablet space, which was revived by Apple and its iPad last year. Since April 2010, more than 10 million consumers worldwide have bought a ... (Read Full Article)

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GreenBiz's 20 Most Popular Stories of 2010

Explore GreenBiz.com (Dec 31 2010)

... 10. Netbook Processors Create Huge Efficiency Boost In Supercomputers Academic researchers coupled Intel's Atom chips with solid state disks to increase the amount of data processed per kilowatt hour of e...... show how companies are making significant progress on reducing their environmental impacts. 6. Can Apple's MobileMe Packaging Get Even Smaller? Apple has taken steps over the years to reduce its packaging, but is the box and piece ... (Read Full Article)

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Intel Takes a Wider Role, Making Chips for Others

Explore The New York Times (Nov 1 2010)

...er companies design. These companies engage in a fierce, expensive battle to attract customers like Apple, Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices. Mr. Richard said that Intel had struggled to build a major business beyond PC and server chips, and that working with other des... (Read Full Article)

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25 new IT companies to watch

Explore IDG News Service (Oct 25 2010) Cloud Computing

...logy companies is hitting the market. One startup you've never heard of might end up being the next Intel or Microsoft. Others may force changes upon established vendors that have gone stale, which will ha...... first startup in this market, as it will have to contend against the likes of Fusion-io, which has Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak as its chief scientist. But Virident is claiming to offer faster performan... (Read Full Article)

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ARM Eyes Data Center, New Markets with Cortex-A15 Chip Design

Explore eweek.com (Sep 9 2010) Cloud Computing

...s. ARM Holdings, whose chip designs already are found in most of the current smartphones, including Apple's iPhone and devices based on Google's Android OS, is now looking to expand its reach into other ar......' wireless chip business for $1.4 billion. For its part, ARM is now looking to move into areas that Intel and its rival, Advanced Micro Devices, now occupy. The company is ramping up ... (Read Full Article)

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The Biggest Green Market? Seven Reasons Why It's Green IT

Explore Greentech Media (Sep 2 2010) Solar , Wind

...attery invested in Smooth-Stone, which has created a low-powered ARM chip that will compete against Intel chips in servers.) Transistors replaced vacuum tubes, in part, because it would have been impossibl...... benefits are often relatively easy to measure. Hara has landed a large number of accounts -- Coke, Apple, News Corp. -- with its dashboard that meticulously measures consumption. In its new five-year plan... (Read Full Article)

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Google TV connects the Home TV viewers to the Data Center

Explore greenm3.com (May 20 2010)

...eb to the television viewing experience, ushering in a new category of devices for the living room. Intel, Sony, and Logitech, together with Best Buy, DISH Network and Adobe, joined Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) o......rections for Playstation 4. Google has launched a new platform that should worry Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, and any others who want to leverage video.  The YouTube acquisition allows Google to anal... (Read Full Article)

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Earth Hour: Is it Time to Virtualize the Electrical ...

Explore ReadWriteWeb (Mar 29 2010) Cloud Computing

...ed in time units, processing is calculated in megahertz. We can see how important the work is at Intel and others (AMD, IBM, Apple) to get higher processing per energy consumption at the core. This post is part of our ReadWriteClo... (Read Full Article)

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Oracle Plans To Hire 2000 New Staff At Sun

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Jan 28 2010) Cloud Computing

...fferent things. We want to do a small number of things well. I don't see Oracle ever competing with Apple or Google in phones, for example." When urged by a Golden State Warriors fan to buy the floundering......I've been trying." Only ten percent of computers have their power managed. It's time we did better, Intel's eco-tech manager told us,… (Read Full Article)

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Intel’s Results Rocked, But It Can’t Count On the Old Guard

Explore GigaOM (Jan 14 2010)

...as the same long-term, PC-driven wind at its back to look forward to for the next decade — and even Intel’s presence inside Apple systems can’t make up for that problem. Phones on Fire, PCs — Not So Much Researchers at Gartner ha... (Read Full Article)

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How Digitization Drives Energy Efficiency

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Dec 10 2009) Carbon Footprint , Emissions

...een quantified by a number of prominent corporations and research institutions including Microsoft, Intel, Lawrence Berkley Labs and Stanford University. + A recent paper by Dr. Jonathan Koomey, senior re......l delivery of their product to customers reduced carbon emissions by 88%. + According to NPG Group, Apple leads the U.S. with 25% of all music sold, surpassing both Wal-Mart and Amazon.com. Apple’s iTunes music service has materially changed ... (Read Full Article)

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Data Center Companies, Brand Recognition

Explore greenm3.com (Sep 22 2009) Cloud Computing

...anies who have a big data center presence. Note the big movers in brand recognition, Google 25% and Apple 12%. Stepping back to look at the top brands who run data centers, Interbrand has a report on the t......itable company. United States Computer Hardware 30,636 In the fast-growing mobile computing market, Intel stands to find success. Determined to break into this category, the world’s number one chipmaker ... (Read Full Article)

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Q+A-What are Larry Ellison's plans for Sun Micro?

Explore Reuters.com (May 10 2009) Monitoring

...to increase the investment in SPARC. We think designing our own chips is very, very important. Even Apple is designing its own chips these days. Right now, SPARC chips do some things better than Intel chips and vice-versa. For example, SPARC is much more energy efficient than Intel while delivering the same performance on a per socket basis. This is not just a green issue, it's a... (Read Full Article)

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Grading Google's carbon neutral claims

Explore Technology News (May 7 2009) Carbon Footprint , Emissions , Fossil Fuel , Cloud Computing

...ails to specify what each company includes in its carbon footprint. But according to that EPA list, Intel will reduce its global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 30 percent per from 2004 to 2010; Cisco wi......tegory signaling that they had made a start, but still had work to do in certain areas. Amazon.com, Apple, and eBay were placed in the red category which, according to Climate Counts' chart ... (Read Full Article)

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