1. Articles mentioning both Doug Mohney and Google

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    1. In praise (yes praise) of the data center big boys by Doug Mohney

      Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (May 16 2012)

      In praise (yes praise) of the data center big boys by Doug Mohney Having been tarred and feathered on numerous occasions in Greenpeace drive-by PR papers, Facebook, Google and Microsoft are actually making forward progress in the battle to cut carbon emission.  But quiet... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Greenpeace   Google   Facebook

    2. Google’s “thermal storage” an old trick by Doug Mohney

      Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Apr 4 2012)

      Google’s “thermal storage” an old trick by Doug Mohney Everyone’s all rah-rah this week about Google using “thermal storage” for the first time in its new Taiwan data center, as first reported by Focu... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Greenpeace   Google   Doug Mohney

    3. Are satellites green? No and yes. by Doug Mohney

      Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Mar 14 2012)

      Are satellites green? No and yes. by Doug Mohney ...een user and ISP once all is said and done on a vanilla connection. O3b Networks, funded in part by Google, promises to change "traditional" satellite broadcast practices by using a constellation of low-fly... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Google   Doug Mohney

    4. 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 ... 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 Energy to sponsor... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Google   Department of Energy   Facebook

    5. Google save money, wastes time by Doug money

      Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Sep 8 2011)

      Google save money, wastes time by Doug money Timing is everything.  Yesterday, Google came out with a white paper saying its Gmail email service can be almost 80 times more energy effic... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Google   Doug Mohney

    6. Bloom Energy starts to grow up - By Doug Mohney

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

      Bloom Energy starts to grow up - By Doug Mohney ... 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)

      Mentions:   Google   Doug Mohney   eBay

    7. Google puts a price tag on clean energy innovation - and gives me a headache - by Doug Mohney

      Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Jun 29 2011)

      Google puts a price tag on clean energy innovation - and gives me a headache - by Doug Mohney ...ncentives and mandates." You can find "The Impact of Clean Energy Innovation" paper at http://www.google.org/energyinnovation/.  About the only thing it didn't throw in for good news is whiter teeth and f... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Google   Doug Mohney

    8. Does it require a real crisis to produce real change? by peter judge

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

      Does it require a real crisis to produce real change? by peter judge ...ame mixture of panic and optimism it has produced since global warming became a political issue.  Doug Mohney is on the money when he says that energy is going to get more expensive, as a result of the world s......d the energy mix is shifting, so there will be a move to generating electricity on-site - something Google is doing in its latest Finnish data center. The sea-water cooling is ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Apple   Greenpeace   Amazon.com

    9. greenpeace shifts its sights to apple - by Peter Judge

      Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Apr 25 2011)

      greenpeace shifts its sights to apple - by Peter Judge ...ative, a great industry-leading, information-sharing initiative which was summed up on this blob by Doug Mohney: “Wow!”  That campaign tipped over into parody, when Greenpeace, which regularly puts Facebook d...... The Greenpeace study looked into the data centers of ten companies altogether - the full roster is Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Twitter, IBM, Microsoft, HP, Akamai and Amazon. I think there are three interes... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Apple   Greenpeace   Amazon.com

    10. Facebook's Open Compute- WOW! by Doug MOhney

      Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Apr 20 2011) Servers

      Facebook's Open Compute- WOW! by Doug MOhney ....   By going open with hardware server and data center design, Facebook throws down the gauntlet to Google and others to stop treating its energy saving practices as trade secrets to be protected.  Instead,... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Greenpeace   Google   Facebook

    11. facebook and greenpeace, why can't they be friends? by Peter Judge

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

      facebook and greenpeace, why can't they be friends? by Peter Judge ...sing to answer the question, talking about efficiency rather than carbon intensity. On this site, Doug Mohney calls Facebook’s campaign a “jihad” for its unreasoning character. It’s an interesting metaphor, gi......which might be the thin end of a big wedge.  Facebook also can’t take the “greenwash” route like Google. getting green kudos by making high-profile investments in renewable energy, while still using coal... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Greenpeace   Google   Facebook

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

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

      More Green than you can shake a stick at by Doug Moheny ...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 perce... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Greenpeace   Google   Yahoo

    13. Greenpeace Jihad against Facebook Continues - By Doug Mohney

      Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Mar 30 2011)

      Greenpeace Jihad against Facebook Continues - By Doug Mohney ...rten points out Facebook isn't even the largest data center company with dirty power as a mainstay. Google's Lenoir, North Carolina data center gets over 50 percent of its power from coal while Amazon's Nor... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Greenpeace   Amazon.com   Google

    14. Four Guidelines for the Green Data Center of 2015 - by Doug Mohney

      Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Dec 2 2010)

      Four Guidelines for the Green Data Center of 2015 - by Doug Mohney ...atever the marketing people want it to be.  In addition, one size of data center will not fit all;  Google/Microsoft/Facebook mega-centers are a far different breed than the lean-and-mean facilities which w... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Google   Facebook   Doug Mohney

    15. Green servers in growing markets will lead to more power consumption - by Doug Mohney

      Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Sep 30 2010)

      Green servers in growing markets will lead to more power consumption - by Doug Mohney ... small to mid-sized data center.   If you're not building a "mega-center" on the scale of Facebook, Google, Yahoo or Microsoft, you can easily tuck away a data center into a closet or a small office or a fl... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   New York Times   Google   Yahoo

    16. The instant new-build data center - by Doug Mohney

      Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Jul 15 2010)

      The instant new-build data center - by Doug Mohney ...ross Europe. Many companies are already on the data center container bandwagon, including IBM, HP, Google, and Microsoft; the U.S. military and certain government agencies love the concept since you can bu... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Google   Hewlett Packard   Doug Mohney

    17. Power From Green Wellies - by Peter Judge

      Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Jun 14 2010)

      Power From Green Wellies - by Peter Judge ...out to be a theoretical paper, and not exactly a practical proposition, according to fellow blogger Doug Mohney.  More seriously, Google and other providers are buying into wind energy, which strikes me as a practical proposition, and o... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Greenpeace   Google   Facebook

    18. Green and Secure - Hand in hand for data centers By Doug Mohney

      Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Jun 10 2010)

      Green and Secure - Hand in hand for data centers By Doug Mohney ...s week. A green data center with a red flag for security breaches will soon be a dead data center.  Google just published a white paper detailing its security policies for its apps suite -- made up of the n... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Google   Doug Mohney   LEED

    19. Google buys into wind - what next? by doug mohney

      Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (May 7 2010) Wind

      Google buys into wind - what next? by doug mohney ... into large scale renewable energy -- and likely not to be the last. From a "green" perspective, Google's investment rings most of the good bells. There's already existing transmission capability to del... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Google   Doug Mohney

    20. Greenpeace's latest data center drive-by shooting - by doug mohney

      Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Apr 7 2010)

      Comment "Nice post Doug. I still think there's a place for Greenpeace's whistleblowing, and as an SEO-chasing journalist, I have some ..." - judgecorp

      Greenpeace's latest data center drive-by shooting - by doug mohney ...watts than current usage in 2020.  It goes on to suggest that Fortune 500 companies like Microsoft, Google and IBM go influence policies to "decouple" economic growth from rising greenhouse gas emissions, a... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Greenpeace   Google   Facebook

    21. The Coming Great Video Headache - by Doug Mohney

      Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Mar 24 2010)

      The Coming Great Video Headache - by Doug Mohney ...xisting shows, HD demands both bigger hard drives and higher bandwidth -- and it won't be solved by Google giving away 1 GBps pipes to a couple of small towns in America. Did I mention that 3-D TV will onl... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Google   Doug Mohney

    22. Google is going to trade energy - Say What? By Doug Mohney

      Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Mar 5 2010)

      Google is going to trade energy - Say What? By Doug Mohney ...operating with the NSA on the side) and upsetting copyright experts over its digital library plans, Google is now going to buy and sell electricity. Is it just me, or do you hear some "Danger, Danger Will... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Google   Federal Energy Regulatory Commission   Enron

    23. The curious link between the smart grid and green data centers - by Doug Mohney

      Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Feb 10 2010)

      The curious link between the smart grid and green data centers - by Doug Mohney ... stream, so plugging in a monitoring service to summarize is pretty straightforward.  PowerMeter is Google's play into the smart grid arena and a fairly lightweight one. The service is a free simple home en... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Europe   Google   Doug Mohney

    24. chasing cheap kilowatts has its limits by doug mohney

      Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Aug 27 2009) Power and Cooling

      chasing cheap kilowatts has its limits by doug mohney ... all current server hardware doesn't have a big power consumption difference between idle and peak; Google's custom servers only consume 65 percent of peak power when "idle." Net-net is if you are going to ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Google   Carnegie Mellon University   Doug Mohney

    25. Trimming watts with software by Doug Mohney

      Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Jul 20 2009) Monitoring , Grid Computing , Networking , Servers

      Trimming watts with software by Doug Mohney ... storage arrays with 141 terabytes of physical storage – now that's a lot of hardware and power! Google has hinted at taking software optimization one step further by developing automated tools that mana... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Google   Doug Mohney

    26. The evil and necessity of batteries by Doug Mohney

      Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Jun 25 2009) Construction

      The evil and necessity of batteries by Doug Mohney ...th supply and demand being driven by the auto industry building hybrid and all-electric vehicles.  Google's approach to the battery problem is simple and elegant – but not easily repeatable for the rest of... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Google   Doug Mohney

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