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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
... 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 ......e biogas, Microsoft is exploring siting data centers at landfills and wastewater treatment plants. AT&T and NTT America have also installed fuel cells at their data center facilities. Onsite Wind – Wind ...
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Comment Mentions: Apple Greenpeace Facebook
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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
...een a major player in the real estate scene in Silicon Valley, developing properties for Microsoft, Apple, Equinix and Nvidia, among others. While western Oregon has been a hotbed of data center activity, ......site also provides carrier neutral connectivity from Qwest, Level 3, Verizon, Integra, Time Warner, AT&T and 360 Networks. The developers say the state of Oregon can offer 20 consecutive years of real est...
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Data Centers Scale Up Their Solar Power
Explore Data Center Knowledge (May 14 2012) Construction , Fuel Cell , Solar , Cloud Computing
... 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......re foot solar array, which has been online since 2006 and currently powers office buildings housing AT&T and Comcast. + eBay – E-commerce giant eBay recently unveiled its largest solar installation to dat...
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Comment Mentions: Apple Cisco DuPont Fabros
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Bloom Energy to Double Manufacturing Capacity for Fuel Cells
Explore Triple Pundit (May 8 2012) Power and Cooling , Fuel Cell
... big-time customers including: Owens Corning, Urban Outfitters, Delmarva Power, and Washington Gas. AT&T, already Bloom’s biggest customer with 7.5 MW of capacity distributed over 11 locations, will be ad......ng 400kW systems each generating 3.4 million kWh which reduce 1 million pounds of CO2 annually. And Apple’s enormous new 500,000 sq ft. data center in North Carolina will also be powered with 5MW Bloom ...
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Comment Mentions: Apple At&T Bloom Energy
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Bloom Energy Brings on Big Customers
Explore energyandcapital.com (May 2 2012) Construction , Emissions , Fuel Cell , Servers
...uel cell companies, supplying alternative energy system units to major corporations such as Google, Apple, eBay, Walmart, Caltech, AT&T, and its newest customers: The Coca-Cola Company and NASA. The firm's advanced on-site power genera...
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Bloom Energy Officially Expands to East Coast, Adds Customers, Confirms Apple ...
Explore fuelcelltoday.com (May 1 2012) Construction , Fuel Cell
...announced some of Bloom’s new customers, including Owens Corning, Urban Outfitters, Washington Gas, AT&T (who already uses Bloom Energy Servers at its California facilities) and Delaware utility Delmarva ...... the event by KR Sridhar was that his company is indeed behind the 4.8 MW fuel cell installation at Apple’s North Carolina data centre, as had been previously deduced. "Apple is an existing customer and they will use ...
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Comment Mentions: Apple At&T Bloom Energy
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Sunnyvale-based Bloom Energy expands to East Coast behind NUMMI veteran [San Jose Mercury News, Calif.]
Explore investing.businessweek.com (Apr 30 2012) Construction , Power and Cooling , Emissions , Fuel Cell
... Delmarva Power and Washington Gas and corporate customers like Owens Corning, Urban Outfitters and AT&T. The company also confirmed that Apple's (AAPL) new data center in Maiden, N.C., will be powered, in part, by Bloom's fuel cells. "I got r... (Read Full Article)
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iDataCenter Will Use Landfill-Powered Bloom Boxes
Explore Data Center Knowledge (Apr 30 2012) Construction , Emissions , Fuel Cell
Apple will use biogas from landfills to generate electricity for its massive data center in North Carolin......in California, stemming partly from concerns about future energy pricing in the state. In 2011 both AT&T and NTT announced purchases of Bloom units to support their data centers in California. Last month ...
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Comment Mentions: Apple Federal Energy Regulatory Commission NTT
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Apple's green credentials Bloom with fuel cell installation
Explore DatacenterDynamics (Apr 30 2012) Construction , Power and Cooling , Emissions , Fuel Cell
...t the site’s opening, including Owens Corning, Urban Outfitters, Delmarva Power, Washington Gas and AT&T, which has Bloom Boxes already installed at its California sites. Apple has been careful to reinstate its green data center credentials in recent weeks after coming under ...
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Comment Mentions: Apple Greenpeace At&T
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Apple is (finally) confirmed as Bloom Energy's customer
Explore GigaOM (Apr 30 2012) Construction , Power and Cooling , Emissions , Fuel Cell , Solar
Last month I exclusively reported that Apple was buying fuel cells from Bloom Energy for its data center in Maiden, North Carolina. However at t......pecifically focused on providing reliable power for data centers. Image courtesy of Bloom Energy at AT&T campus. Related research and analysis from GigaOM Pro: Subscriber content. Sign up for a free trial...
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Comment Mentions: Apple Greenpeace Google
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Al Gore accused of conflict of interest in Apple’s Bloom Energy deal
Explore DatacenterDynamics (Apr 16 2012)
...ormer vice president of the US and a powerful climate activist, of having a conflict of interest in Apple’s purchase of a Bloom Energy fuel-cell system for the consumer-electronics and digital-media compan......n July 2011: NTT America bought Bloom Energy Servers for its San Jose, California, data center, and AT&T bought 7.5MW of fuel-cell capacity to install across 11 of its California sites, including some dat...
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Comment Mentions: Apple Google Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
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Apple plans nation's biggest private fuel cell energy project in N.C.
Explore Home Page (Mar 31 2012) Construction , Emissions , Fuel Cell
...watt project in Maiden, about 40 miles northwest of Charlotte. That's where Cupertino, Calif.-based Apple has built a data center to support the company's iCloud online data storage system and its SIRI voi......re used also by Walmart, Google, Staples, eBay, Cox Enterprises, FedEx, Bank of America, Coca-Cola, AT&T and Adobe, according to Bloom's web site. Clean energy for Duke Charlotte-based Duke Energy, which ...
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Apple plans nation's biggest private fuel cell energy project at NC data center
Explore News, Sports, Business, Politics (Mar 31 2012) Construction , Power and Cooling , Fuel Cell
...watt project in Maiden, about 40 miles northwest of Charlotte. That’s where Cupertino, Calif.-based Apple has built a data center to support the company’s iCloud online data storage system and its SIRI voi......re used also by Walmart, Google, Staples, eBay, Cox Enterprises, FedEx, Bank of America, Coca-Cola, AT&T and Adobe, according to Bloom’s web site. Charlotte-based Duke Energy, which is likely to buy the ...
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Was the Hype Around Bloom Energy Two Years Ago Justified?
Explore Triple Pundit (Mar 29 2012) Construction , Power and Cooling , Fuel Cell
... to power data centers for NTT America, the U.S. division of Japanese telecom giant NTT, as well as AT&T. It might be even that Apple will be joining this list very soon.
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Bloom exec: fuel cells could revolutionize data centers
Explore GigaOM (Mar 15 2012) Construction , Emissions , Fuel Cell
...tion of dirtier grid power, said Gross. Bloom has already sold fuel cells to telcos NTT America and AT&T, partly for their data centers, and I reported recently that it looks like Apple will be buying fuel cells from Bloom for its large fuel cell farm at its massive data center in Nor...
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Comment Mentions: Apple Hewlett Packard At&T
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Bloom Energy launches data center focus for its fuel cells
Explore GigaOM (Mar 14 2012) Construction , Emissions , Fuel Cell
...ught in 2007. Recently, I reported that it looks like Bloom Energy is the fuel cell provider behind Apple’s planned 5-MW fuel-cell farm at its billion-dollar data center in Maiden, N.C. However, neither Bl...... to power data centers for NTT America, the U.S. division of Japanese telecom giant NTT, as well as AT&T. For data centers, the fuel cells can either offer primary power (with the ...
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Comment Mentions: Apple Hewlett Packard NTT
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Top 5 Data Center Stories, Week of Feb. 24th
Explore Data Center Knowledge (Feb 25 2012) Construction , Fuel Cell , Solar , Cloud Computing
...own, which is already home to a huge Facebook data center campus. A deed filed last week shows that Apple has purchased the land from Crook County for $5.6 million, according to the Central Oregonian. * To......ich was one of the first major data centers to rely almost entirely on outside air to cool servers. AT&T Picks North Carolina for $200 Million Data Center - North Carolina continues to ...
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AT&T Picks North Carolina for $200 Million Data Center
Explore Data Center Knowledge (Feb 22 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing
North Carolina continues to attract major data center projects to the state. Today AT&T announced that it will invest $200 million to build a major data center in Kings Mountain, N.C. in ......In the past four years, the area west of Charlotte has been chosen for new server farms for Google, Apple, Facebook, Walt Disney and Wipro/Infocrossing. The region has benefitted from aggressve tax incenti...
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Apple Plans 20MW of Solar Power for iDataCenter
Explore Data Center Knowledge (Feb 20 2012) Construction , Power and Cooling , Fuel Cell , Solar
Apple has revealed new details about the operations of its huge data center in Maiden, North Carolina, in......nnually. The facility will be among the largest data center initiatives using fuel cells, Last year AT&T said it would install Bloom Energy fuel cells at 11 sites in California to generate 7.5 megawatts o...
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10 Things To Be Thankful For In Greentech This Year
Explore GigaOM (Nov 21 2011) Solar
...t year Google was the main proponent of next-gen energy tech and data centers, in 2011 Facebook and Apple also joined the fray in paying attention to clean power and energy efficiency. Facebook’s open comp......uple days. The company is led by iPod and iPhone designer Tony Fadell. At the same both Verizon and AT&T are planning home energy services bundled with other digital home devices. Verizon’s ...
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Sprint’s Shares Fall on News It Lacks Money for Upgrades
Explore The New York Times (Oct 7 2011) Networking
... new iPhone 4S as investors hoped that the phone would help the company recruit and keep customers. AT&T and Verizon Wireless have been able to lure people with the iPhone, which Sprint was not able to of...... would over time “be one of our most profitable devices,” but he did not elaborate. Sprint will pay Apple dearly for the privilege of selling the phone. An iPhone that Sprint sells ...
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Comment Mentions: Apple Verizon Wireless At&T
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Software in Data Centers is Eating the World
Explore greenm3.com (Aug 20 2011)
...from these legacy services declined by more than 11%. Meanwhile, the two biggest telecom companies, AT&T and Verizon, have survived by transforming themselves into software companies, partnering with Apple and other smartphone makers.
All of this software goes into data centers, and to grow faster t...
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Comment Mentions: Apple Google Hewlett Packard
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As Networks Speed Up, Data Hits a Wall
Explore The New York Times (Aug 14 2011) Networking
... disappearing, just as a new crop of data-gobbling Internet services from Netflix, Spotify, Amazon, Apple and the like are hitting the market or catching on with wide audiences.
These services use far m......ing appetite for data and avoid problems with overburdened networks. Mark Siegel, a spokesman for AT&T;, said that if current trends continued, the company’s network would carry more data in the first t...
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Comment Mentions: Apple Amazon.com At&T
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Stream Data Centers Focusing on Wholesale
Explore Data Center Knowledge (Aug 9 2011) Cloud Computing
...ta center business, Stream Data Centers has leased or sold data centers to blue chip companies like Apple, Home Depot, AT&T, Sprint and Nokia. It has followed the opportunities the market has presented, and recent shifts in...
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