Iceland hopes to export energy via datacentres

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...rt. Some utility companies are working on high-voltage undersea powercables to deliver the power to Europe, but it will be years before this happens, ZDNet UK understands.

Iceland has ambitions to becom......y... I think he's referring specifically to Android apps, as Apple do regulate their App Store, but Google seem to let any old crap onto the Android store! Keep the crap apps out?! How will they compete ... (Read Full Article)

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Digital route forward

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...e having our conversation looks out on what is probably one of the most vibrant digital clusters in Europe. In front of us, construction is advancing on Google's €75m data centre. Down the road is Microsoft's €1bn data centre that serves its cloud businesses ... (Read Full Article)

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DRT to build in Irish data center park

Explore DatacenterDynamics (Feb 8 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing

... Telecity, which last year said it is more than doubling available power to its Dublin data center. Google also announced plans last year to build a 75m euro data center at the park, which covers 100 acres....... in the park which offers data center ready sites with access to multiple telecom routes connecting Europe and the US. DRT’s VP of Sales Adam Levine said like many other companies that ... (Read Full Article)

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2011 – the year Ireland became ‘home of the cloud’

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...539 sq-metre facility at Greenhills Industrial Estate in Dublin 24 to expand its cloud footprint in Europe. In September, Google revealed it will invest €75m in a new data centre that will generate 30 full-time and 200 construct... (Read Full Article)

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Are Clouds Green?

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...tes - every click uses energy somewhere. But a new breed of data centres is opening up in northern Europe - cooled by the chilly air and powered by cheap renewable energy. Facebook became the latest compa...... former NATO air base which now houses the first zero carbon data centre in the world, and speak to Google about what they're doing to reduce the footprint of their operations. (Read Full Article)

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Beijing hopes to dominate cloud computing with “Cloud Valley”

Explore SmartPlanet (Dec 16 2011) Power and Cooling , Cloud Computing

American firms like Amazon and Google may have pioneered cloud computing, but Beijing’s city government hopes the industry will head east......Valley’s engineers have returned to China after working for IT firms and universities in the US and Europe, and Supercloud’s CEO studied computing in California. The Valley has managed to attract foreign fi... (Read Full Article)

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France, for a Moment, Becomes Focus of Digital Optimism

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...antitrust regulators, and Paris, where he opened the Internet giant’s new headquarters for southern Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Google’s move from a plain office building into a palatial, 107,640-square-foot building that o... (Read Full Article)

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Ireland/Iceland Atlantic cable aims for data jobs

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...land are seeking to fuel their hard-hit economies and exploit their position on the western edge of Europe with new data centers to be connected via a new, $300 million transatlantic telecoms cable by 2013....... will help it to benefit from its renewable hydro and geothermal energy resources for data centers. Google Inc is building a data center in Dublin and Microsoft Corp already has one in the city. The ... (Read Full Article)

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Ireland/Iceland to lay Atlantic cable

Explore businessworld.ie (Dec 1 2011) Geothermal , Cloud Computing , Networking

...land are seeking to fuel their hard-hit economies and exploit their position on the western edge of Europe with new data centres to be connected via a new, USD300 million transatlantic telecoms cable by 201...... will help it to benefit from its renewable hydro and geothermal energy resources for data centres. Google is building a data centre in Dublin and Microsoft already has one in the city. The centres would ... (Read Full Article)

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New Approaches to the Green Data Center

Explore itbusinessedge.com (Nov 24 2011) Carbon Footprint , Emissions , Wind

... in 2014, the center will consume about 120 MW in order to handle the traffic needs of users across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The Facebook facility is only one of a number of new constructs that w......hat the abundance of trees on the property will actually make it carbon negative. At the same time, Google is investing heavily in wind energy production, a move that it hopes ... (Read Full Article)

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Google Agrees to Allow Owners of Wi-Fi Routers to Opt Out of Database

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...y restrict how companies that do business on the Internet can collect and manipulate personal data. Google ran afoul of data protection officials from Europe to Hong Kong when it acknowledged that its Street View mapping vehicles had collected private data ... (Read Full Article)

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Google vs. Facebook European data center locations

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..., and Taiwan.  Recognize a pattern?  Three is a good number, says GreenM3 :-) Keep in mind given Google has built its three data centers it most likely looked at sites all over Europe before it picked its three locations.  Think about being in three sites as an option to building on... (Read Full Article)

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Facebook joins the Arctic crowd

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...d. Facebook's Swedish data center will have company from other tech giants in Scandinavia. In 2009, Google ( , Fortune 500) bought a defunct paper mill in Hamina, Finland, and converted it into a data cente......tions make building there attractive. And for an American company like Facebook, housing servers in Europe can cut down the number of milliseconds it takes a Czech Facebook user to "like" a friend's status.... (Read Full Article)

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The cloud and your firm's carbon footprint

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

...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......cluster of data centres are not only fuelling the country's reputation as the 'Internet Capital' of Europe, but many are citing their operations here as examples of green efficiency. Microsoft, for example,... (Read Full Article)

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What's behind Iceland's first major data center

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... giant data center outside the town center of Luleå,” in Sweden. It was around this time, too, that Google announced the opening of its data center in Hamina, Finland. And it was around this time, too, that......isa Rhodes, VP of marketing and sales for Verne Global, and Sean McAvan, Datapipe’s VP of Sales for Europe and the Middle East – and thought I’d share some excerpts of those ... (Read Full Article)

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Google plans $200 million Asian data centers

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...nd videos while South Koreans frequently use their phones to upload videos to YouTube, according to Google data, Meadows said. Mountain View, Calif.-based Google already has six data centers in the United States and two in Europe. Google boasts that its data centers are energy efficient and environmentally friendly. Its $272 million Fi... (Read Full Article)

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Buildings house secret servers that keep net humming

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... management company in Byers, Pa. The facility is 200 feet deep in a former limestone mine. Ads by Google Data Center Cooling Save Up To 50% In Cooling Costs Using SynapSense Active Control www.SynapSe......rust, which bought the building in 2005, owns 96 properties, most of them data centers, in the USA, Europe and Asia, Caron says. There is, he says, "a lot of demand" and the company expects ... (Read Full Article)

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Hacking in Netherlands Points to Weak Spot in Web Security

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...itical gain. “This is the Dutch equivalent of Hurricane Irene,” said Calum MacLeod, the director in Europe for Venafi, a U.S. company whose software helps companies like Cisco manage the class of digital fi......r of a range of Web addresses, not just of Dutch government sites but also of global companies like Google and Yahoo. Remotely, apparently from a computer address in Russia, he compelled DigiNotar to ge... (Read Full Article)

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Six ways to cool your data centre efficiently and cheaply

Explore features.techworld.com (Sep 5 2011) Power and Cooling , Carbon Footprint , Servers

... cooling," says Rich Fichera, VP and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research. Companies like Apple, Google and Microsoft, along with hosting companies, have been sussing out sites that meet affordable power......sibly another network device or two. For example, one way transit from the data centre to London or Europe adds 18 milliseconds, and to the United States about 40 milliseconds. ISAAC KATO IS INSPIRED BY ICE... (Read Full Article)

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On Its Own, Europe Backs Web Privacy Fights

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... in her college days. They might not have received much of a hearing in the United States, where Google is based. But here, as elsewhere in Europe, an idea has taken hold —individuals should have a “right to be forgotten” on the Web. Spain’s g... (Read Full Article)

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Dell Builds Efficient ‘Microsite’ Data Centre For Microsoft

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...to create one-foot aerial blanket coverage – initially of the continental United States and Western Europe – for the Bing Maps platform and consumer website. The microsite, in Boulder, Colorado, also suppor......ich are expensive to buy and expensive to run. Recent data centre deployments by such companies as Google and Yahoo are driving the shift away from chillers and toward a greater reliance on fresh air for c... (Read Full Article)

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Dell, Microsoft Tout Data Center 'Microsite' for Bing Maps

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...y to create one-foot aerial blanket coverage—initially of the continental United States and Western Europe—for the Bing Maps platform and consumer Website. Other image-intensive The microsite, in Boulder, C......hich are expensive to buy and expensive to run. Recent data center deployments by such companies as Google and Yahoo are driving the shift away from chillers and toward a greater reliance on fresh air for c... (Read Full Article)

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Google Buying Land for Future Data Centers

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jul 18 2011)

...t likely reflect future sites for data centers. Urs Hoelzle, Senior Vice President of Operations at Google, said last month that the company expects to build one or two more data centers n Europe, but provided not timetable for that expansion. The company has not announced any new data center p... (Read Full Article)

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Top Telecoms Chafe at Opening Up Networks to Rivals

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...r the group of 39 chief executives and high-level representatives from companies like Apple, Nokia, Google, Vodafone, Telecom Italia and BT on March 3 to prepare “concrete proposals” on how Europe could accelerate the construction of high speed broadband networks. Higher speeds enable the inexpe... (Read Full Article)

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