Two Views on Apple's Coal-Powered Data Center

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

...th 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 renewable energy efforts. You can read more about Google’s... (Read Full Article)

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Facebook's New Power Player

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

...social network? In 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 "li......friend 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 ... (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......cus will be on sustainability, clean energy and energy efficiency, he said. The news comes just as Greenpeace winds up a long-running campaign calling on Facebook to "unfriend coal" as a source of energy for i... (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. W......comes as Facebook is deepending its commitment to use renewable energy as part of an agreement with Greenpeace. Weihl’s move was first reported by Greenmonk, and has been confirmed by Facebook. Weihl left Go... (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......r to a total strange. And to cap the month off, there's Earth Day 2011 on April 22.  Earth Day is Greenpeace's extortion deadline to Facebook.   If Facebook doesn't repent its ... (Read Full Article)

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