Are IT Data Centers Emerging as a 'Killer App' for Green Power? Part 2

Explore Renewable Energy World (May 24 2012) Construction , Fossil Fuel , Fuel Cell , Solar , Wind , Cloud Computing

... And multiple onsite renewable energy solutions may be deployed simultaneously, as is the case with Apple’s Maiden, North Carolina data center, which has planned solar and fuel cell deployments to meet 60 ......(MWh) of power to the data center annually. Other companies deploying solar at data centers include eBay (665 kW), Facebook (100 kW), i/o Data Centers (4.5 MW), McGraw-Hill Companies (14.1 MW), and Qualit... (Read Full Article)

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Data Centers Scale Up Their Solar Power

Explore Data Center Knowledge (May 14 2012) Construction , Fuel Cell , Solar , Cloud Computing

... as well as some links to early implementations that paved the way for larger arrays to follow: + Apple: The maker of the iPad and iPhone plans to build a 20-megawatt solar power facility to support the...... which has been online since 2006 and currently powers office buildings housing AT&T and Comcast. + eBay – E-commerce giant eBay recently unveiled its largest solar installation to date today, situated atop its “Topaz” data ... (Read Full Article)

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Bloom Energy Brings on Big Customers

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

...uel 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 firm's advan... (Read Full Article)

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Sunnyvale-based Bloom Energy expands to East Coast behind NUMMI veteran [San Jose Mercury News, Calif.]

Explore investing.businessweek.com (Apr 30 2012) Construction , Power and Cooling , Emissions , Fuel Cell

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Apple data center helps fuel Bloom Energy move to east coast

Explore Technology News (Apr 30 2012) Construction , Emissions , Fossil Fuel , Fuel Cell , Servers

... LaMonica by Martin LaMonica April 30, 2012 7:42 AM PDT Follow @mlamonica Bloom's Energy Servers at eBay which run on biogas, which Apple also plans to do at its North Carolina data center. Bloom's Energy Servers at eBay which run on biogas, which Apple also plans to do at its North Carolina data center. (Credit: Bloom Energy) On the day Bloom Energy... (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

...ly on biogas (eventally), using fuel cells I think will come from Bloom Energy. The biogas that the Apple fuel cell farm plans to use will be “Directed Biogas,” which is biogas that is cleaned and monitore......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 ... (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)

...ormer vice president of 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 compan......t 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 for data enter applications in July 2011: N... (Read Full Article)

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eBay Adds Solar Panels to Topaz Data Center

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Apr 10 2012) Construction , Fuel Cell , Solar

...lation to date today, situated atop its “Topaz” data center located in South Jordan, Utah. Topaz is eBay’s first wholly-owned data center and it was awarded LEED Gold status by the US Green Building Counc......e energy capacity to almost 2 Megawatts. Solar installations seem to be gaining in popularity, with Apple announcing its plans to produce 20 MW of solar power for its iDataCenter in Maiden, North Carolina ... (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

...watt project in Maiden, about 40 miles northwest of Charlotte. That's where Cupertino, Calif.-based Apple has built a data center to support the company's iCloud online data storage system and its SIRI voi......ill 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 Bloom's web ... (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

...watt project in Maiden, about 40 miles northwest of Charlotte. That’s where Cupertino, Calif.-based Apple has built a data center to support the company’s iCloud online data storage system and its SIRI voi......ill 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 Bloom’s web ... (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

... Focusing on data center security – 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 mu......TT America, the U.S. division of Japanese telecom giant NTT, as well as AT&T. It might be even that Apple will be joining this list very soon. (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

... the last few years, the company has lined up an impressive list of name-brand customers, including eBay, Walmart, Coca-Cola and FedEx and is rumored, according to GigaOm and others, to be “the supplier b......art, Coca-Cola and FedEx and is rumored, according to GigaOm and others, to be “the supplier behind Apple’s planned massive 5 megawatt (MW) fuel cell farm to be built at its data center in Maiden ... (Read Full Article)

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Watch out tech world. This CEO knows consumers

Explore GigaOM (Sep 23 2011) Cloud Computing

..., and enabled economic wealth for customers and the company itself. In the heyday of the early web, eBay was near, if not at, the top. Now at HP she’ll have a chance to apply her consumer touch to one of ......ouch to one of Silicon Valley’s most storied brands. A brand that many thought had a chance to give Apple a run for its money. A brand that ... (Read Full Article)

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Akamai, eBay, Google Set Bar for CO2 Reporting by Internet Giants

Explore GreenBiz.com (Sep 13 2011) Carbon Footprint , Emissions , Cloud Computing

Akamai, Apple, eBay and now Google have become industry standouts for disclosing their energy consumption and carbon fo... (Read Full Article)

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Study: Internet Firms Lagging On Green Strategy

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

...networking firms, including Chinese companies Alibaba, Baidu and Tencent along with Akamai, Amazon, Apple, eBay, Expedia, Facebook, Google, Netflix, Priceline, Salesforce and Yahoo. Study: Internet Firms Lagging... (Read Full Article)

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14 Cloud Services Players Scrutinized For Green Credentials

Explore zdnet.com (Sep 13 2011) Carbon Footprint , Emissions , Cloud Computing

Only four companies, Akamai, Apple, eBay and Google, disclose global emissions information for the data centers driving their SaaS applicati... (Read Full Article)

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Facebook, Amazon Panned on Energy Management and Transparency

Explore environmentalleader.com (Sep 13 2011) Monitoring , Carbon Footprint , Emissions

...re also carbon reporting “laggards,” the report said. Only 4 of the 14 firms in the study – Akamai, Apple, eBay and Google – disclose GHG emissions from their data centres on a global basis, Verdantix said. Goog... (Read Full Article)

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For Microsoft, Skype Opens Vast New Market in Telecom

Explore The New York Times (May 10 2011)

... software. Skype could help it better compete with the new giants of technology, like Google and Apple. “Skype has been a forerunner, and this deal is Microsoft trying to become relevant in this new age......er than dedicated phone landlines or cell tower networks. Skype has had a bumpy ride as a business. EBay bought it for $2.6 billion in 2005, and then sold most of it to a ... (Read Full Article)

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Morning Tech Wrap: Microsoft, Skype, Google

Explore Forbes.com Blogs (May 10 2011)

Microsoft is in talks to buy Skype from eBay and the internet telephone services's founders for between $7 billion and $8 billion, according to ......ffering users storage of up to 20,000 songs without charge, compared to Amazons offer of 2,000. ——- Apple is preparing to announce a big partnership with voice-recognition software company Nuance, accordin... (Read Full Article)

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Apple's Olivier Sanche Passes Away

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Nov 29 2010) Construction , Cloud Computing

...on data center in North Carolina. Olivier also headed data center teams at AT&T, Telecity Group and eBay prior to moving to Apple. His last major project at eBay was heading design and construction on the company’s “Topaz” data center in South Jordan, Utah, whi... (Read Full Article)

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25 new IT companies to watch

Explore IDG News Service (Oct 25 2010) Cloud Computing

...ore the trust consumers once had in them. We'll still be suspicious of poorly written e-mails from "eBay" and our bank, however. One big area of concern regarding cloud security is storage, of course. For...... first startup in this market, as it will have to contend against the likes of Fusion-io, which has Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak as its chief scientist. But Virident is claiming to offer faster performan... (Read Full Article)

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Is Apple About to Unleash the iDataCenter?

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Sep 1 2010) Cloud Computing

...cally wreaked havoc with uptime at MacWorldExpo and Twitter web sites. Perhaps not so much anymore. Apple announced last night that it would live stream video coverage of today’s highly-anticipated product......ns are overseen by Olivier Sanche, who previously directed data center construction projects for eBay, TelecityGroup and AT&T. (Read Full Article)

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The Technology Inside Apple’s New iDataCenter

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jul 21 2010) Cloud Computing

What Internet magic lurks inside Apple’s massive new data center in North Carolina? The company isn’t saying, even as it confirmed yesterd......ns are overseen by Olivier Sanche, who previously directed data center construction projects for eBay, TelecityGroup and AT&T. (Read Full Article)

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Is iTunes ‘Reboot’ Driving iDataCenter Project?

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Dec 11 2009) Cloud Computing

... Sanche to run its data center operations. Olivier previously ran the data center infrastructure at eBay, one of the leading examples of massive scalability. If Apple is really planning a push into online video, we’ll hear about more huge data center projects soon. ... (Read Full Article)

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