It’s not easy being green: Data center edition

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

...om a panel on sustainable data centers at the Open Compute Summit held today in San Antonio, Texas. Bill Weihl, manager of energy efficiency and sustainability at Facebook and the former energy czar at Google, moderated the panel that also featured the head of sustainabi... (Read Full Article)

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Two Views on Apple's Coal-Powered Data Center

Explore Technology Review (Apr 17 2012) Construction , Fossil Fuel , Fuel Cell , Solar , Cloud Computing

...on this month for a more detailed look at the intersection of IT and energy. It includes a Q&A with Facebook’s Bill Weihl, where he talks about these issues. The Greenpeace report also applauded Google’s expansive renewab... (Read Full Article)

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Facebook's New Power Player

Explore Technology Review (Apr 12 2012) Construction , Fossil Fuel , Cloud Computing

... the image-conscious tech world, green credibility matters. It wasn't long before Greenpeace turned Facebook into the target of an aggressive "Unfriend Coal" campaign that garnered 181,000 "likes" on Facebook's own Web pages. All of this is why Bill Weihl is important. The computer scientist was named by Time magazine as a "hero of the environment" in 2... (Read Full Article)

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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... (Read Full Article)

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Google Energy Czar Weihl Moves to Facebook

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Dec 20 2011) Fossil Fuel , Wind

Bill Weihl, who was the “Green Energy Czar” at Google, will begin a similar position at Facebook next month. Weihl’s hiring comes as Facebook is deepending its commitment to use renewable energy as part of an agreement with Greenpeace. Weihl... (Read Full Article)

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More Green than you can shake a stick at by Doug Moheny

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Apr 11 2011)

...ound bites being posted on "What green thinkers think about green," with Google's Green Energy Czar Bill Weihl bragging that his company has cut data center energy use by 50 percent by "very careful application......reatened to "up the ante" whatever that means.   Will they dump a load of coal on the front lawn of Facebook's corporate HQ?  Or simply send out more press releases? --> In a couple ... (Read Full Article)

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