Facebook Recruits Google Green Energy Czar for Sustainability Push

Explore CIO.com (Dec 21 2011) Construction , Wind , Cloud Computing

Facebook has hired Google's former "green energy czar" Bill Weihl, in a move designed to demonstrate the company's commitment to low-carbon computing and renewable e.......2 percent, second only to Apple's (at 54.5 percent) and far higher than Google's (34.7 percent) or Amazon's (28.5 percent). Greenpeace based its estimates on published figures for data centre power consump... (Read Full Article)

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Greenqloud: Iceland’s Clean Power Cloud Computing Co.

Explore GigaOM (May 28 2010) Carbon Footprint , Geothermal , Cloud Computing

...miliar with cloud computing, it’s basically scalable computing services on demand; companies like Amazon are selling such services to startups and large web firms alike. Cloud computing will also contribu......d Professor Jonathan Koomey pointed out at our Green:Net ’09 event, and Google’s Green Energy Czar Bill Weihl discussed at Green:Net 2010, there’s been an increased effort by Internet companies to add clean po... (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

...ecoming carbon neutral for 2007 and is almost entirely neutral for 2008, Google's Green Energy Czar Bill Weihl announced on the official Google blog Wednesday evening. In June 2007, Google had announced it was......he yellow category 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 ... (Read Full Article)

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