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Bloom Energy Brings on Big Customers
Explore energyandcapital.com (May 2 2012) Construction , Emissions , Fuel Cell , Servers
...erican fuel 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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Apple is (finally) confirmed as Bloom Energy's customer
Explore GigaOM (Apr 30 2012) Construction , Power and Cooling , Emissions , Fuel Cell , Solar
...(gas emitted by decomposing organic waste). An increasing number of Internet companies, like Apple, Google and Microsoft, are experimenting with turning to biogas as an emerging source to power part of thei......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)
...ode and announced a series of major deals it had already made with some big-name clients, including Google, Bank of America, Coca-Cola, FedEx, eBay and Walmart, among others. It announced its first sales fo......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
...ed company that will build it. The fuel cell modules, called Bloom Boxes, are 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
...ed company that will build it. The fuel cell modules, called Bloom Boxes, are 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 e...
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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
...Bloom had a very impressive list of customers in 2010 including eBay, Wal-Mart, FedEx, Staples, and Google, which was one of the reasons the company was receiving so much attention in the first place. Bloom...... 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 Energy Sharpens Focus on Data Centers
Explore Data Center Knowledge (Mar 19 2012) Construction , Fuel Cell , Cloud Computing
...tinue operating during grid outages. Early adopters of Bloom cells include blue-chip companies like Google, Bank of America, Coca-Cola, eBay, FedEx, Staples and Wal-Mart. Lightly Adopted in Data Centers – S......omers the option of leasing the equipment, reducing the up-front capital requirements. In 2011 both AT&T and NTT announced purchases of Bloom units to support their data centers in California. “By providi...
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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
...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 attract major data ......5 Partners. The announcement is the latest in a series of data center wins for the state, including Google, Facebook and Apple.
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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 ...... state. 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 ...
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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
...due to conversions to step the power down within the data center. Similar designs have been used by Google and Facebook in their data centers. + Apple is using containment “pods” in which airflow is regulat......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 ...
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A New Net
Explore Technology Review (Feb 6 2012) Cloud Computing , Networking
...ologies of all time needs to be rethought. Stanford researchers have reshaped computing before—both Google and early work on the Internet itself came out of their labs—but Casado and his PhD supervisor, Nic......ng itself more quickly than other startups. In addition to NTT and Rackspace, its customers include AT&T, Deutsche Telekom, Fidelity Investments, and eBay. And in Casado, Nicira has a figure widely recogn...
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Comment Mentions: Amazon.com Forrester Research Google
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Adobe Adds 400 Kilowatts of Bloom Fuel Cells
Explore Greentech Media (Feb 2 2012) Emissions , Fuel Cell
...rder of magnitude larger than Bloom’s biggest projects so far with California customers such as Google, eBay, Adobe and AT&T, as well as Bloom’s pilot projects with California utilities Pacific Gas & Electric and Southern Ca...
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Comment Mentions: Google Adobe Kleiner Perkins
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The cloud shouldn’t be an over the top service
Explore GigaOM (Dec 6 2011) Cloud Computing , Networking
... for applications that will require low latency, argues Weinman. Weinman, who moved over to HP from AT&T last year, is a deep thinker on the economics of cloud computing. He also argues that bandwidth wil......ore protocols to deliver a variety of services over the web. Take, for example, an application like Google +. There are real-time streaming elements, a video conferencing set up and document sharing. Each d...
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10 Things To Be Thankful For In Greentech This Year
Explore GigaOM (Nov 21 2011) Solar
...energy efficiency and clean power are important parts for the modern data center. While last year Google was the main proponent of next-gen energy tech and data centers, in 2011 Facebook and Apple also jo......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 home ...
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Software in Data Centers is Eating the World
Explore greenm3.com (Aug 20 2011)
... favor of investing more heavily in software, where it sees better potential for growth. Meanwhile, Google plans to buy up the cellphone handset maker Motorola Mobility. Both moves surprised the tech world.......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 Appl...
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Comment Mentions: Apple Google Hewlett Packard
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Bloom Energy starts to grow up - By Doug Mohney
Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Aug 1 2011)
...loom Energy shows signs of expansion. The fuel cell/green-energy-as-a-service (g-e-a-s) company won AT&T as a customer. Since this spring, it has quadrupled its manufacturing facility and grown its workf......
At that time, the company said it had deployed 120 Bloom Boxes around California at places such as Google, Walmart, Caltech, eBay, Staples, The Coca Cola Company, and Kaiser Permanente, not to mention more...
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Comment Mentions: Google Doug Mohney eBay
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Bloom Energy fuel cells use biogas to help power NTT data center
Explore DatacenterDynamics (Jul 28 2011) Carbon Footprint
...his is the second announcement of a Bloom Energy deployment at a California data center this month. AT&T announced earlier in July a plan to deploy 7.5MW of the vendor’s fuel cells across 11 California si......ldings and facilities housing network equipment. Other Bloom Energy customers in California include Google, eBay and Adobe, according to a GigaOm report.
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AT&T Will Use Bloom Boxes in Data Centers
Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jul 14 2011) Fossil Fuel , Cloud Computing , Servers
Telecommunications giant AT&T will install Bloom Energy fuel cells at 11 sites in California, including some of the companies' da......k of America, Coca-Cola, eBay, FedEx, Staples and Wal-Mart. Perhaps the best known early adopter is Google, which has a 400 kw installation of Bloom boxes at its headquarters, but hasn’t used them in its da...
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For Microsoft, Skype Opens Vast New Market in Telecom
Explore The New York Times (May 10 2011)
...s and technology companies — a focus of energy, investment and anxiety for corporations including AT&T;, Verizon, Apple, Google and Facebook. Microsoft is betting that Skype can help change its fortunes. Skype is a leader in In...
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Comment Mentions: Apple The New York Times Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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GE Completes Lineage Power Deal
Explore peHUB (Mar 2 2011) Cloud Computing
...and 4G/LTE wireless networks that enable the Amazon(R) Kindle(TM), Apple(R) iPhone(R) and iPad(TM), Google(R) Android(TM) smart phones and other mobile devices. We also are bringing to GE exciting new solut......uced total cost of ownership. Our customers include leading U.S. telecom service providers, such as AT&T, Verizon Wireless and Verizon, and leading global OEMs, such as Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco, Ericsson, He...
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Comment Mentions: Amazon.com Google Cisco
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Are Telcos ready for Cloud computing?
Explore greenm3.com (Jan 6 2011) Cloud Computing
CNET news has a post on on Cloud Computing listing who the players will be Google, Microsoft, Salesforce.com, VMware, Amazon Web Services, IBM, HP, Hosting companies and Telcos.
......try segment that may surprise us with respect to one-stop cloud services would be companies such as AT&T, Verizon Communications, Comcast, and BT--the major telecommunications providers. They own the conn...
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Comment Mentions: Amazon.com Google IBM
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Is Apple About to Unleash the iDataCenter?
Explore Data Center Knowledge (Sep 1 2010) Cloud Computing
...ystems using chilled water (meaning Apple won’t be going “chiller-less” to save energy, as Google and Microsoft have done). Apple’s data center operations are overseen by Olivier Sanche, who previo......er Sanche, who previously directed data center construction projects for eBay, TelecityGroup and AT&T.
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The Technology Inside Apple’s New iDataCenter
Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jul 21 2010) Cloud Computing
...ystems using chilled water (meaning Apple won’t be going “chiller-less” to save energy, as Google and Microsoft have done). Apple’s data center operations are overseen by Olivier Sanche, who previo......er Sanche, who previously directed data center construction projects for eBay, TelecityGroup and AT&T.
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The Top 250 Players in the Cloud Computing Ecosystem
Explore .NET DEVELOPER'S JOURNAL (Jun 18 2010) Power and Cooling , Geothermal , Cloud Computing , Grid Computing
...tana Cloud, which it says "is architected to complement Cloud infrastructure providers like Amazon, Google, Joyent and others." Targeted at rapid development, in particular web applications that need to sca......aS companies, cloud storage providers, internal enterprise cloud users and key government entities. AT&T - AT&T broke into the cloud business in August 2008 with the global launch of what it calls AT&T Synaptic Hosting - described as "a ...
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Comment Mentions: Amazon.com Iceland Europe
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