Nebraska Woos Huge ‘Project Edge’ Data Center

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Feb 6 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing

...been aggressively pursuing data center projects in recent years, with its most notable win being as Yahoo facility in La Vista. The state has identified numerous site with the power and fiber infrastructur...... sense. What companies are on the cusp of this type of network growth? One possible candidate is Apple, especially given its $1billion investment in its new data center in North Carolina. As we’ve noted... (Read Full Article)

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2011: The Year Data Centers Turned Green

Explore Wired News (Dec 30 2011)

...centers are alike. Out of necessity, the huge Internet players — Google, Facebook, Amazon, Twitter, Yahoo, and Apple — are finding ways to use greener energy and get more out of the energy they use. Google has contin... (Read Full Article)

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The Yahoo Factor

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Nov 16 2011) Hydro , Cloud Computing

...y the CIO of Skype, Furlong is Director of Site Operations for Facebook, and Noteboom now works for Apple’s data center operations. Yahoo has had its struggles lately, but this photo provides a reminder of its role in seeding innovation ... (Read Full Article)

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Green Q&A: What impact does online time have on the environment?

Explore Home - San Jose Mercury News (Oct 29 2011) Carbon Footprint , Cloud Computing , Servers

...npeace examined energy sources for the 10 largest IT companies involved in cloud computing, finding Apple, Facebook and IBM especially guilty of getting significant amounts of power from coal-fired power p......cilities ever designed and constructed -- from a utility that derives most of its power from coal.) Yahoo, Amazon and Microsoft scored best in use of renewable alternative energy sources for cloud services... (Read Full Article)

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Apple Building Solar Farm to Accompany 1B North Carolina Data Center

Explore Web Host Industry Review (Oct 26 2011) Solar

October 26, 2011 -- According to a whole slew of reports appearing this week, technology giant Apple is building the “Project Dolphin Solar Farm” in connection to its $1B data center in Maiden, North ......the fact that earlier this week the company made big news by hiring away the data center chief from Yahoo, the data center is clearly an area of focus for the company. PREVIOUS: Web Host CyberlinkASP Expa... (Read Full Article)

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Global server farms around the world

Explore Telegraph.co.uk (Oct 26 2011) Solar , Servers

...s Colt Telecoms, but they decided to open it out to other customers. Quincy, Washington (Microsoft, Yahoo!, Dell) The cluster of server farms in this formerly sleepy farming community, probably ranks as th......River, Microsoft’s two centres alone hold hundreds of thousands of servers. Maiden, North Carolina (Apple) Apple is reportedly spending upwards of $1bn on Project Dolphin, which at 500,000 square feet will be one... (Read Full Article)

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Apple building solar farm for data center

Explore GigaOM (Oct 25 2011) Solar , Cloud Computing

Apple has been laying plans for a solar farm next to its massive data center in Maiden, North Carolina, a......are relatively small and can only power a small portion of data center’s power needs. While Google, Yahoo, Facebook and others have been rather vocal about their interest in clean power and greener data ce... (Read Full Article)

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Apple Hires Away Yahoo Data Center Chief

Explore Web Host Industry Review (Oct 23 2011) Cloud Computing

... Noteboom appears to have added a few contacts since the story broke Related Topics: appointments, apple, yahoo, abovenet, data centers, scott noteboom (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- According to reports publish... (Read Full Article)

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Apple hires Yahoo’s data center chief

Explore GigaOM (Oct 22 2011) Cloud Computing

...t. 22, 2011, 7:40pm PT No Comments * Tweet * * * Scott Noteboom, the man who has been in charge of Yahoo’s data center operations since 2005, has now joined Apple as the iconic consumer electronics maker expands into the cloud. According to LinkedIn, Noteboom is... (Read Full Article)

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Kevin Timmons Joins CyrusOne as CTO

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Oct 17 2011) Hydro

...nology officer (CTO), the company said today. Timmons has led data center teams at Microsoft and Yahoo, focusing on building efficient Internet-scale data centers on a budget. He left Microsoft earlier ......ale data centers on a budget. He left Microsoft earlier this year, reportedly to take a position at Apple. Today’s announcement made no mention of Timmons and Apple, which rarely discusses its data center operations. CyrusOne in Expansion ... (Read Full Article)

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Buildings house secret servers that keep net humming

Explore usatoday.com (Sep 22 2011)

...economy rising up in the footprints of the old," he says. Giant companies such as Google, Facebook, Apple, Yahoo and Amazon often build their data centers in rural areas. "They're looking for cheap power and chea... (Read Full Article)

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Akamai, eBay, Google Set Bar for CO2 Reporting by Internet Giants

Explore GreenBiz.com (Sep 13 2011) Carbon Footprint , Emissions , Cloud Computing

...g environmental awareness" and Salesforce is "getting smarter about sustainability communications." Apple and Yahoo! were hailed among industry leaders for "comprehensive disclosure" and "exacting carbon intensity g... (Read Full Article)

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14 Cloud Services Players Scrutinized For Green Credentials

Explore zdnet.com (Sep 13 2011) Carbon Footprint , Emissions , Cloud Computing

...k right now for reporting emissions associated with data centers. Among the companies that report, Apple and Yahoo! use the traditional financial methods of disclosing this information as part of their overall disc... (Read Full Article)

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Building Cost-Effective Data Centers

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Aug 31 2011) Cloud Computing

...ct, we used many of the same energy saving and efficiency enhancing features innovated by Facebook, Yahoo! and Apple. As a wholesaler, we can offer these best-of-breed technologies in an optimally configured and... (Read Full Article)

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Google keeps its Googlers going via green buildings

Explore siliconrepublic.com (Aug 19 2011) Power and Cooling , Carbon Footprint , Solar

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Adopt 'right balance' for green clouds

Explore zdnetasia.com (May 23 2011) Carbon Footprint , Fossil Fuel , Solar , Wind , Cloud Computing

...on involved in the storing and transmitting of data among 10 global IT companies, including Google, Apple, Microsoft and Yahoo. However, it did concede that its findings were gleaned from "limited" information available and at... (Read Full Article)

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Apple Adding Data Center in Silicon Valley

Explore Data Center Knowledge (May 18 2011) Cloud Computing

Apple is expanding its Internet infrastructure with a new data center in Silicon Valley, as it prepares t......data centers in northern Virginia, Chicago and New Jersey. The company’s tenants include Microsoft, Yahoo, Google and Facebook. DFT’s Santa Clara site will be built in two phases, each with 18.2 megawatts ... (Read Full Article)

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Facts and Figures Behind Greenpeace’s Green Data Center Report

Explore GigaOM (Apr 26 2011) Monitoring

...eport card last week? While much of the coverage of the report focused on the A-to-F grades ranking Apple, Facebook, Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, IBM and others, the report also laid out some broad categories where IT giants can be l... (Read Full Article)

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greenpeace shifts its sights to apple - by Peter Judge

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Apr 25 2011)

...oud resources, will boost the amount of tech we use, and add needlessly to IT’s carbon footprint. Yahoo came off best in the report, with a coal intensity of only 13.8 percent, compared with Apple’s 54 percent. The Greenpeace study looked into the data centers of ten companies altogether - the f... (Read Full Article)

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Greenpeace Study Targets "Dirty Power" in Cloud Computing

Explore Web Host Industry Review (Apr 21 2011) Fossil Fuel , Cloud Computing

...d and evaluates both good and bad energy choices made by top IT companies such as Facebook, Google, Apple, and Yahoo!. Titled "How Dirty is Your Data?," the report details the large amount of electricity required to... (Read Full Article)

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Microsoft Data Center GM Timmons Heads to Apple

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Apr 14 2011) Hydro , Cloud Computing

...ributions he made to Microsoft during his time here.” But industry sources say Timmons is headed to Apple, whose top data center executive, Olivier Sanche, passed away suddenly last November. Dave Ohara, w...... GeoCities, and also served as a senior software engineer at Marconi Dynamics. While Timmons was at Yahoo, he oversaw the team that developed the company’s “Computing Coop” design and led the site selectio... (Read Full Article)

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Apple’s Most Expensive Acre

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Oct 5 2010) Cloud Computing

...cheaper in rural areas with abundant open space and modest business activity. These factors allowed Yahoo to acquire land for its new data center in Lockport, N.Y. at a cost of about $8,000 an acre. But......s works in the landowner’s favor, even in places like Maiden, North Carolina. That was the case for Apple, which wound up paying a local couple $1.7 million for a ... (Read Full Article)

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HP Rolls Out Web-Enabled Printers

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Sep 21 2010) Cloud Computing

...s that allow users to print documents from the web or their smartphones. HP is also partnering with Apple and Yahoo to provide new functionality for the company’s printer line. HP Rolls Out Web-Enabled Printers A li... (Read Full Article)

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Greenpeace Asks Facebook To ‘Unfriend’ Coal

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Sep 1 2010) Carbon Footprint , Wind

..., and does not disclose its carbon footprint, according to Naidoo’s letter, and is doing worse than Yahoo and Google, according to Kessler who praised the environmental credentials of Yahoo’s new data centre in Buffalo and Google’s investment in wind power. At present, electricity from re......y-friendly electricity a good one for Facebook. Other IT companies criticised by Greenpeace include Apple, whose iPad has been slated for driving ... (Read Full Article)

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