1. Articles mentioning both Department of Energy and Google

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    1. The cloud and your firm's carbon footprint

      Explore siliconrepublic.com (Oct 15 2011) Power and Cooling , Carbon Footprint , Emissions , Wind , Cloud Computing , Servers

      The cloud and your firm's carbon footprint ...CT is a key area firms are now looking at to help them achieve low-carbon business models. With the Department of Energy indicating that data centres may be consuming 3pc of total US electricity today, the report predict......duce inefficiency and minimise energy use - and therefore carbon emissions - all at the same time." Google recently published its energy usage figures, revealing that its CO2 footprint - at almost 1.5m tonn... (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   Europe   Google   Department of Energy

    2. Us government continues to lead on green by Doug Mohney

      Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Oct 13 2011)

      Us government continues to lead on green by Doug Mohney ...hing other than simply be slaves to a monitoring system. Turning to the other good news area, the U.S. Department of Energy completed its fifth Solar Decathlon.  The event challenges college teams from around the world to d...... consumption. Do you see where I'm going? The data center industry -- yes, Facebook, Microsoft, Google, and all the other big players out there -- should team up with the Department of ... (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   Google   Department of Energy   Facebook

    3. Study: Internet Firms Lagging On Green Strategy

      Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Sep 13 2011) Carbon Footprint , Emissions

      Study: Internet Firms Lagging On Green Strategy inShare 1 Companies such as Amazon, eBay and Google must do better on energy management and emissions disclosure The world’s leading Internet companie......er usage doubled between 2000 and 2006, according to the US’ Environment Protection Agency, and the US Department of Energy estimates that data centres now consume up to 3 percent of the US’ total electricity usage. Green s... (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   Apple   Greenpeace   Amazon.com

    4. Google Invests $280M in SolarCity Solar Roof Fund

      Explore GigaOM (Jun 14 2011) Solar , Wind

      Google Invests $280M in SolarCity Solar Roof Fund ...llion into clean power projects, a size which rivals a large VC or private equity greentech fund or Department of Energy program. While Google’s investments in utility-scale centralized solar projects and transmission lines for clean power co... (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   Google   Department of Energy

    5. Google Invests Massive $168M in BrightSource Solar Project

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

      Google Invests Massive $168M in BrightSource Solar Project ...argest stakeholder, and the bulk of the project’s funding should come from a loan guaranteed by the U.S. Department of Energy, which offered a $1.37 billion guarantee more than a year ago, and which the DOE finalized this morning. You’re probably wondering what on earth Google wants to do with clean power. First off, there are the financial returns. As Rick Needham, Google’s green business ... (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   Google   Yahoo   Department of Energy

    6. Sizing up the data center construction market

      Explore DatacenterDynamics (Mar 28 2011) Emissions

      Sizing up the data center construction market ...uction market. To make his assessment, Belady used data center energy consumption estimates made by US Department of Energy’s Jonathan Koomey in 2007 and industry estimates of the average cost to build 1MW of data center ca......ruction and operation firm Sabey, says data centers supporting companies such as Microsoft and Google have well-defined homogenous functions, which allows them to optimize data center designs better th... (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   Europe   Google   Department of Energy

    7. Sensing the Future of Greener Data Centers

      Explore Scientific Computing (Jan 10 2011) Monitoring , Carbon Footprint , Servers

      Sensing the Future of Greener Data Centers ...ctricity consumption for a tab of $4.5 billion and growing. The problem is worrying enough that the U.S. Department of Energy recently awarded $47 million in grants for data center efficiency research. Cost and carbon footpr......sor at Stanford University. High-performance computing researchers are tackling those issues at the Department of Energy’s National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) located at Berkeley Lab. NERSC is pi... (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   Google   Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory   Department of Energy

    8. Biggest Problem for Exascale Computing: Power

      Explore Reuters.com (Dec 13 2010) Wind , Supercomputer

      Biggest Problem for Exascale Computing: Power ...ere’s also been a recent effort underway to share computing power for climate research. Both the Department of Energy and Google recently announced computing sharing projects focused on climate change data. The DOE is donating space on two of the world’s supercomputers for dozens of projects focused on energy i... (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   Google   Department of Energy   Facebook

    9. Google Unveils Earth Engine to Save World’s Forests

      Explore Reuters.com (Dec 2 2010) Emissions , Wind , Supercomputer

      Google Unveils Earth Engine to Save World’s Forests ...te change, given deforestation contributes to more carbon emissions than all vehicles combined. Now Google has emerged as a key warrior in the deforestation battle. On Thursday morning in Cancun, Mexico at ....... Sharing and donating computer power for fighting climate change has been a trend this week. The Department of Energy awarded time on two of the world’s fastest super computers, the equivalent of 1.7 billion processor... (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   U.N.   Google   Department of Energy

    10. 25 new IT companies to watch

      Explore IDG News Service (Oct 25 2010) Cloud Computing

      25 new IT companies to watch ...s: Smooth-Stone and SeaMicro. Backed by plenty of venture capital and a $9.3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy, SeaMicro says its servers consume 75% less power and space than traditional machines. The SeaMicro......he scale our data architecture behind 18 of the top 20 most heavily trafficked Web sites (including Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Wikipedia and Craigslist) and tens of thousands of other corporate and... (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   Apple   Amazon.com   Larry Ellison

    11. Google Makes Its Case for Wind Power

      Explore BusinessWeek (Oct 13 2010) Nuclear , Wind

      ...estors collect a profit on approved projects. Risks, Returns Reicher, an assistant secretary at the U.S. Department of Energy from 1997 through 2001, said Google considered the project for more than a year. Before joining Google in 2007, Reicher worked as president of New Energy Capital Corp., a private-equity firm in Hanover,... (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   Natural Resources Defense Council   Google   Eric Schmidt

    12. Yahoo’s New Facility Shows Trend, Growing Importance of Green Data Centers

      Explore The New York Times (Sep 20 2010) Wind , Cloud Computing , Servers , Storage

      Yahoo’s New Facility Shows Trend, Growing Importance of Green Data Centers ...ling for every dollar spent on electricity. It was built in part with a $9.9 million grant from the Department of Energy. The issue of green data storage is one that’s growing in importance. The EPA has expressed conce......r efficiency measures. Tags: data storage center, energy efficiency Companies: accenture, Amazon, DOE, EPA, Facebook, Google, Greenpeace, Microsoft, nokia, Power Assure, Yahoo Yahoo’s New Facility Shows Trend, Growing ... (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   Greenpeace   Amazon.com   Google

    13. The Biggest Green Market? Seven Reasons Why It's Green IT

      Explore Greentech Media (Sep 2 2010) Solar , Wind

      The Biggest Green Market? Seven Reasons Why It's Green IT ...installers and large buyers aren't showing a lot of interest in experimentation. (The picture shows Google's first storage device. They've graduated since then.) 3. Everything Dies a Quick Death. A single p...... control energy in data centers, which are the highest-value real estate most companies own. The IT department, therefore, will become the early adopter and guinea pig for green building management. 6. Solar an... (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   Apple   Fujitsu   Intel

    14. How to Put Green IT to Work - It Management

      Explore baselinemag.com (Jul 1 2010) Solar , Servers

      How to Put Green IT to Work - It Management ... Green sourcing and supply chain strategies consider green life cycles of equipment and IT systems. Google, Facebook and other data-centric firms are locating data centers in cooler climate regions and area......d consortium is a leader with metrics, calculators, and best practices. Additional green resources: U.S. Department of Energy Save Energy Now Program: http://www1.eere.energy.gov/industry/datacenters U.S. Department of Energy, ENERGY STAR Data Center ... (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   Google   The Green Grid   Department of Energy

    15. Coming down from the cloud

      Explore sustainableindustries.com (May 31 2010) Emissions , Cloud Computing , Servers

      Coming down from the cloud ...ile the range of solutions—referred to widely as green IT—is as broadly defined as the results of a Google search, there are huge opportunities for both software and technology developers as well as every c......iner. The federal government is playing a huge role in jump-starting green IT projects. In January, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced it will grant $47 million to some of America’s ... (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   Google   Yahoo   Department of Energy

    16. Keeping Out The Bad Guys

      Explore Forbes.com (May 3 2010) Cloud Computing

      Keeping Out The Bad Guys ...or and how do you stop them? To shed light on this world, Forbes tapped Tom Pyke, former CIO of the U.S. Department of Energy. Prior to that, he was CIO for the Commerce Department and at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Nuclear secrets and the Internet go tog......vided. We virtualized most of our servers because it made good sense and it was green. Where is the ... (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Google   Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

    17. Energy Efficiency Metrics Going Global

      Explore Relocate (Apr 8 2010) Servers

      Energy Efficiency Metrics Going Global ...erning energy efficiency metrics for data centers. Parties to the agreement include segments of the U.S. Department of Energy, as well as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) Energy Star program, Japan’s Ministr...... such as AMD, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, and Oracle, as well as other critical companies such as Cisco, Google, and Texas Instruments. According to its website (http://www.thegreengrid.org/), The Green Grid ... (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   Intel   Google   Oracle

    18. New federal data center energy-efficiency guidelines on tap

      Explore Data Center (Feb 26 2010) Cloud Computing , Servers

      New federal data center energy-efficiency guidelines on tap ...uring a data center's energy efficiency. Along with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is working with six data center industry groups: 7x24 Exchange, the American Society of Heating, R......news Digg This! StumbleUpon Toolbar StumbleUpon Bookmark with Delicious Del.icio.us Add to Google The federal government and major industry groups are on the cusp of developing widely accepted s... (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   Google   The Green Grid   Uptime Institute

    19. California solar project gets $1.4 billion U.S. guarantee

      Explore Technology News (Feb 23 2010) Fossil Fuel

      California solar project gets $1.4 billion U.S. guarantee ...uids to create steam in turbines and generate electricity. The conditional loan guarantees from the U.S. Department of Energy, the largest federal loan commitment offered to a renewable energy firm, would help BrightSource bu......r the Ivanpah project to minimize the environmental impact. The company, which counts search giant Google and Silicon Valley fund VantagePoint Venture Partners among its investors, already has contracts to... (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   Google   Barack Obama   Steven Chu

    20. The Green Data Center Strategies of Web Giants

      Explore Earth2Tech (Feb 18 2010) Power and Cooling , Emissions , Cloud Computing , Servers

      The Green Data Center Strategies of Web Giants ...ative data center design principles to bear on lowering energy costs and reducing carbon emissions. Google While the company fiercely guard its tech secrets of success, it has peeled back enough of the curt...... draw from the region’s hydroelectric sources to power its servers. It’s a combo that attracted the U.S. Department of Energy’s attention and helped Yahoo capture a nice chunk of stimulus funds meant ... (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   Google   Yahoo   Department of Energy

    21. DOE uses cloud computing for science, CIO says

      Explore Government Computer News (Dec 11 2009) Cloud Computing , Servers

      DOE uses cloud computing for science, CIO says ...ies by using high-performance connectivity to use with cloud computing platforms offered by Amazon, Google and Microsoft, Pyke said at a breakfast meeting sponsored by the market research firm Input Inc. ......s cost savings by performing some of its scientific computations with cloud computing technologies, DOE Chief Information Officer Tom Pyke said today. The department’s national laboratories are getting surprising efficiencies by using high-performance connectivit... (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Google   Department of Energy

    22. Google hosts energy experts amid climate talks

      Explore Technology News (Nov 30 2009) Emissions , Fossil Fuel

      Google hosts energy experts amid climate talks Ahead of a key international summit on climate change, Google hosted a panel discussion at its offices here Monday on the need for the U.S. to play a key role in......n. They were later joined via video conference by Kristina Johnson, undersecretary of energy at the U.S. Department of Energy. The panelists sought not only to emphasize that such a move is essential, but one that presents ... (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   Google   Yahoo   Department of Energy

    23. Google's warm reception for secretary of energy

      Explore Technology News (Oct 26 2009) Power and Cooling , Emissions , Servers

      Google's warm reception for secretary of energy ...toward solving those problems and improving safety. Those were minor policy disagreements, however: Google and the current Department of Energy are definitely friends. Schmidt called Chu one of his heroes, and Chu praised Google's work on reducing the energy consumption of its servers and assuming a "leadership position" in re... (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   Apple   Google   Yahoo

    24. How Green is Your Data Center?

      Explore Search Journal (Oct 17 2009) Carbon Footprint , Cloud Computing

      How Green is Your Data Center? ...or other). Most data centers today consider a target value of 1.5 good, with some companies such as Google trying to drive their PUE below 1.2 – an industry benchmark. Other data centers are not even at the......nd operations in our data centers. Most commercial data centers are in the 4~10MW range. Scary. The US Department of Energy recently did an audit entitled “Department of Energy Efforts ... (Read Full Article)

      Comment Mentions:   Google   Uptime Institute   Department of Energy

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