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 deependi... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Greenpeace   Google   Bill Weihl

Google Axes ‘Renewables Cheaper than Coal’ Project

Explore environmentalleader.com (Nov 23 2011) Fossil Fuel

Google is abandoning efforts to make renewable energy cheaper than coal, the company blogged yesterday. Th... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Google   Bill Weihl   Larry Page

Google Green Czar Steps Down

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Google green czar Bill Weihl quietly stepped down from his post yesterday. Weihl, who headed the company’s Clean Energy Team,... (Read Full Article)

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A sneak peek into Google’s servers and energy efficiency

Explore GigaOM (Aug 1 2011) Cloud Computing , Servers

...ta center floor space, as well as from media reports. Data Center Panel: Christina Page, Yahoo, and Bill Weihl, Google at Green:Net 2011 Yet despite that Google has so many servers, Koomey’s research helps to show how efficient Google’s custom-designed servers and data center designs are. According to Koomey, Google is responsible for less than 1 percent of the electricity used by the world’s data centers ... (Read Full Article)

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Google Invests $100M In (Another!) Wind Farm

Explore GigaOM (Apr 18 2011) Wind

...one day. California utility Southern California Edison currently has a deal to buy the clean power. Google’s Green Energy Czar Bill Weihl (who will be speaking at Green:Net 2011 on April 21 in San Francisco) made it clear to us in interv... (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)

...re are a few interesting  sound 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... (Read Full Article)

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Google Invests Massive $168M in BrightSource Solar Project

Explore The New York Times (Apr 11 2011) Solar , Wind

...y Certificates (RECs), which are tradeable certificates worth money on certain markets. However, as Google’s Green Energy Czar Bill Weihl (who will be speaking at Green:Net 2011 on April 21 in San Francisco) made it clear to us, Google Energy is also ultimately about being able to procure energy, specifically clean energy, to power t... (Read Full Article)

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Microsoft & Google Share Stage to Talk Energy

Explore Greenpeace (Mar 14 2011) Cloud Computing

... professional business is conducted in the cloud. So, the question that Microsoft’s Rob Bernard and Google’s Bill Weihl are grappling with is: Will cloud computing help or hinder our transition to a clean energy economy... (Read Full Article)

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Google Energy Buys Up Iowa Wind Power

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Lower Your PUE

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... Lower Your PUE What Steps You Should Take To Reduce Energy Consumption Key Points • According to Google’s Bill Weihl, hot aisle containment is the single biggest step a data center can take in improving energy effici... (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

...mption of IT and as Stanford 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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Google’s Bill Weihl on Data Center Efficiency

Explore GigaOM (May 5 2010) Cloud Computing , Servers

...ie into the search giant’s “Don’t be evil” credo. At least that’s the sense I got when interviewing Bill Weihl, Google’s green energy czar, at our Green:Net conference last week after his talk on data center efficiency... (Read Full Article)

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google offers tips on lowering your pue - by Paula Bernier

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (May 4 2010)

Comment "Google presentation did not mention any new modes of design or operation. These topics are yesterday's news. However, GE Digital ..." - szalkus

...n, he said, was just to give the company more flexibility in procuring energy for its data centers. Google is obviously a major data center operator, so when the company talks, people listen.  Well, Bill Weihl, green energy czar at Google, was talking recently about the company’s green data center initiatives early this week at Green: N... (Read Full Article)

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Green:Net: Innovating to Reduce Energy Consumption of Computing

Explore Earth2Tech (May 3 2010)

...ransportation and electricity generation, it will grow to consume ever more energy. Because of this Bill Weihl, Green Energy Czar at Google, says the industry has a responsibility to focus on making sure its own data centers are as efficie... (Read Full Article)

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Google’s Budget Containment System

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Apr 30 2010) Cloud Computing , Servers

...ns relevant to the data center sector, including a presentation on data center energy efficiency by Google energy czar Bill Weihl. Most of Weihl’s talk reviewed approaches that Google has previously disclosed in industry conferences. But there was one slide in his presentation that ... (Read Full Article)

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Google, GE Share Five Roadblocks to Energy Savings

Explore environmentalleader.com (Apr 21 2010) Carbon Footprint

...e key roadblocks to energy efficiency, reports Environmental Defense Fund (EDF). Panelists included Google’s Green Energy Czar Bill Weihl,  and Gretchen Hancock, project manager for corporate environmental programs at GE. The number one... (Read Full Article)

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Will Google Solar Power Its Data Centers?

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jan 7 2010) Construction , Geothermal , Solar

...oltaic solar panels, which use semiconductor materials to directly convert sunlight into electrons. Google green energy czar Bill Weihl says the company has made progress on mirrors that could accelerate the development of thermal sola... (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

Google reached its goal of becoming 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 going to try to become carbon neutral by the end of that year ... Google reached its goal of becoming carbon neutral for 2007 and is almost entirely neutral for 2008 ... (Read Full Article)

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