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Explore The New York Times (May 21 2012) Fuel Cell , Cloud Computing

...g sure people execute them. The leading companies driving this trend — Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, Google, Apple, LinkedIn, Zynga and Twitter — are all headquartered and listed in America. Facebook, which ......higher education and research, “we shoot ourselves in both feet,” remarked K.R. Sridhar, founder of Bloom Energy, the Silicon Valley fuel-cell company. “Our people become less skilled, so you are shooting yoursel... (Read Full Article)

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It’s not easy being green: Data center edition

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

...ll 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 sustainability for Rackspace; someone building ...... Renewables aren’t really on the list yet. When asked about using biogas systems such as those from Bloom Energy or solar, the woman representing Rackspace said the idea of running a generation plant along with a... (Read Full Article)

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Bloom Energy Brings on Big Customers

Explore energyandcapital.com (May 2 2012) Construction , Emissions , Fuel Cell , Servers

The California-based fuel cell manufacturer Bloom Energy is on the fast track to becoming one of the top American fuel cell companies, supplying alternative......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... (Read Full Article)

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Apple Buys Bloom Fuel Cells, Promises 100% Green Data Centre

Explore TechWeekEurope UK (May 2 2012) Construction , Emissions , Fuel Cell

...ent renewable power On May 2, 2012 by Peter Judge 2 Apple has confirmed it is using fuel cells from Bloom Energy, which consume methane generated by rotting waste in landfills, to power a data centre. The iPhone ......andfill sites, the company has announced, confirming speculation that Apple would be competing with Google for north Carolina’s pig manure. Landfills were named as a good source of methane in a ... (Read Full Article)

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Apple’s fuel cells will be powered by landfills

Explore GigaOM (Apr 30 2012) Construction , Emissions , Fossil Fuel , Fuel Cell

We were wondering where Apple and Bloom Energy were planning on getting all that biogas to run the large fuel cell farm at Apple’s North Carolina ......and it is also being stopped from being released into the atmosphere in this process. Beyond Apple, Google and Microsoft are also interested in biogas projects. Biogas is still a very small source of power ... (Read Full Article)

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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

Last month I exclusively reported that Apple was buying fuel cells from Bloom Energy for its data center in Maiden, North Carolina. However at the time neither company would confirm th......(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... (Read Full Article)

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What you need to know about data centers & biogas

Explore GigaOM (Apr 22 2012) Construction , Carbon Footprint , Fossil Fuel , Fuel Cell , Cloud Computing

...ent plant or landfill site, and the data center will directly use the biogas produced at the plant. Google has also been researching — and has partly funded — a biogas project in North Carolina, but Google isn’t specifically connecting that to a data center. eBay has Bloom Energy fuel cells using biogas at its headquarters, but not to my knowledge for its data centers. 4). How ... (Read Full Article)

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Apple and Greenpeace in War of Words over Dirty Clouds

Explore Datamation (Apr 20 2012) Construction , Power and Cooling , Fossil Fuel , Fuel Cell , Cloud Computing

...en, N.C. consumes and the tech innovations the company employs to keep a lid on its electrical use. Google, for instance, has deployed Bloom Energy's fuel cells at its main campus. The search giant is also known for using servers with non-standard... (Read Full Article)

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Al Gore accused of conflict of interest in Apple’s Bloom Energy deal

Explore DatacenterDynamics (Apr 16 2012)

...f the US and a powerful climate activist, of having a conflict of interest in Apple’s purchase of a Bloom Energy fuel-cell system for the consumer-electronics and digital-media company’s new data center in Maiden......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... (Read Full Article)

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Will Apple Beat Google to Tap North Carolina's Pig Power?

Explore TPM Idea Lab (Apr 9 2012) Construction , Emissions , Fuel Cell

...e methane gas produced by North Carolina’s massive hog farms has already attracted the attention of Google, and it looks like Apple could become the next tech giant to join the state’s hog waste “black gold......officially announced its fuel cell supplier, rumor has it that they will come from California based Bloom Energy, which states that its signature Bloom Box fuel cells can use a variety of ... (Read Full Article)

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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

...d of the year. Beyond that information, Apple officials would not comment on the project. Nor would Bloom Energy, the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company that will build it. The fuel cell modules, called Bloom Boxes,......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 Bl... (Read Full Article)

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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

...d of the year. Beyond that information, Apple officials would not comment on the project. Nor would Bloom Energy, the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company that will build it. The fuel cell modules, called Bloom Boxes,......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 Bl... (Read Full Article)

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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

About two years ago Bloom Energy revealed its top secret “Bloom Box” fuel cell system and immediately created an incredible buzz. It......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... (Read Full Article)

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Top 5 Data Center Stories, Week of March 24th

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Mar 25 2012) Construction , Fuel Cell , Cloud Computing , Servers

...re-fabricated components that can be assembled into a complete data center. Too Hot for Humans, But Google Servers Keep Humming – Raising the temperature in server racks can make a data center more efficien......ny’s first facility to rely entirely upon fresh air for cooling, instead of energy-hungry chillers. Bloom Energy Sharpens Focus on Data Centers – Peter Gross envisions a future with a Bloom box in your data cente... (Read Full Article)

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Energy Innovation Series Feature #2: Fuel Cell Technology From Bloom Energy

Explore News and blogs (Mar 19 2012) Construction , Emissions , Fossil Fuel , Fuel Cell

...or neighborhoods with their own carbon-free (if powered by renewables), mini power plants. Source: Bloom Energy Founded in 2001, Bloom Energy sold its first Bloom Box to Google and can trace its roots to the NASA Mars space program. In the last few years, the company has lin... (Read Full Article)

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Bloom Energy Sharpens Focus on Data Centers

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Mar 19 2012) Construction , Fuel Cell , Cloud Computing

... a future with a Bloom box in your data center. Two years after unveiling its fuel cell technology, Bloom Energy is focusing on the data center sector, and last week hired industry veteran Gross to head its new M......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... (Read Full Article)

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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......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 megawatts of power. (Read Full Article)

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Adobe Adds 400 Kilowatts of Bloom Fuel Cells

Explore Greentech Media (Feb 2 2012) Emissions , Fuel Cell

...ive as subsidies fade? Earlier this week Adobe announced that it had added another 400 kilowatts of Bloom Energy fuel cells to its current fleet of Bloom Boxes. I spoke with Mike Bangs, Adobe's Director of Global......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 ... (Read Full Article)

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What's up with Google and biomass power?

Explore GigaOM (Dec 27 2011) Construction , Power and Cooling , Carbon Footprint , Emissions , Fuel Cell

...ata centers or offices. (There’s no indication this one in North Carolina will be powering anything Google related). Remember Google was the first customer for Bloom Energy’s fuel cell, which can use biofuel, as well as natural gas and biogas, to produce electricity. Google used the Bloom Energy fuel cells to provide power in a data center test lab. Distributed energy production could be a way... (Read Full Article)

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Bloom Energy starts to grow up - By Doug Mohney

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Aug 1 2011)

Out in Sunnyvale, California, low-key Bloom Energy shows signs of expansion. The fuel cell/green-energy-as-a-service (g-e-a-s) company won AT&T as a c...... 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... (Read Full Article)

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Bloom Energy fuel cells use biogas to help power NTT data center

Explore DatacenterDynamics (Jul 28 2011) Carbon Footprint

...nia sites, including data centers, office buildings and facilities housing network equipment. Other Bloom Energy customers in California include Google, eBay and Adobe, according to a GigaOm report. (Read Full Article)

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Ray Lane: Kleiner is not moving away from greentech

Explore GigaOM (Jul 26 2011)

...t six months, and for the Internet you get customers really fast. And in a year you have a company. Google was 4.5 years. So in digital, they are used to thinking 4 to 5 years. But when we got into greentec......opportunities for companies, though not forecasting IPOs, I think there are big opportunities with Bloom Energy, Miasole, Silver Spring Networks, Enphase Energy, Macoma, Fisker, and GreatPoint Energy ... (Read Full Article)

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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' data centers and network fac......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... (Read Full Article)

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Bloom Energy Announces Industry-Leading Customers

Explore Fuel Cell Markets (May 28 2010) Carbon Footprint , Emissions , Fossil Fuel , Solar , Servers

...nt and improve our sustainability, we're pleased to be able to use on-site clean power generated by Bloom Energy," said Rick Needham of Google‟s Green Business Operations. Staples Inc has pledged to reduce its absolute carbon emissions by 7% ... (Read Full Article)

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