A more sustainable cloud through transparency & change

Explore GigaOM (May 25 2012) Construction , Power and Cooling , Fuel Cell , Solar

...device on site in Maiden, NC. The industry is starting to sit up and listen. A company like Google, Amazon, Facebook or Apple has enormous clout in the areas they operate. These tech giants are big fish to the local ... (Read Full Article)

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Hackers Target European Web Host 123-reg in DDoS Attack

Explore Web Host Industry Review (May 24 2012)

...tatus page, 123-reg advised customers to keep up to date via its phone status message, Twitter, and Facebook accounts in the event of a DDoS attack since access to its status page could be intermittent. While......Fill out our WHIR reader survey to let us know what works and what doesn’t. And enter to win a $100 Amazon gift card. Nicole Henderson writes full-time for the Web Host Industry ... (Read Full Article)

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Web Hosts, Internet Industry Prepare for World IPv6 Launch

Explore Web Host Industry Review (May 23 2012)

...anges to take place on June 5 at 8 p.m. EST. Yahoo!, along with many other websites including Bing, Facebook, and Google have all announced they will be adding IPv6 support permanently. The new-generation pro......Fill out our WHIR reader survey to let us know what works and what doesn’t. And enter to win a $100 Amazon gift card. Justin Lee has been a staff analyst with theWHIR ... (Read Full Article)

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Do You Want the Good News First?

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

...innovation emerging from the ground up, but from seeing the new tools coming on stream that are, as Amazon.com’s founder, Jeff Bezos, put it to me, “eliminating all the gatekeepers” — making it easier and cheap......ng from below, and then making 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 Americ... (Read Full Article)

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Apple's iCloud Data Center to Use Only Green Power

Explore eweek.com (May 19 2012) Construction , Fuel Cell , Geothermal , Solar

...to increasingly compute-dense facilities. More recently has been the rise of companies like Google, Facebook and Amazon—as well as the expanding businesses of established vendors like Apple and Microsoft—which are build... (Read Full Article)

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Are IT Data Centers Emerging as a 'Killer App' for Green Power? Part 1

Explore Renewable Energy World (May 18 2012) Construction , Emissions , Fossil Fuel , Wind , Cloud Computing , Servers

Last month, Greenpeace launched a series of coordinated protests at Amazon, Apple and Microsoft locations to draw attention to the companies’ use of GHG intensive fuels in po......uce the emissions potential of a prospective facility. After Greenpeace’s “unfriend coal” campaign, Facebook adopted a siting policy that gives preference to states with access to a clean renewable energy sup... (Read Full Article)

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Will Facebook’s IPO Have a Web Hosting Impact?

Explore Web Host Industry Review (May 17 2012)

...e hardware designs, Dion Hinchcliffe of ZDNet says it hasn’t given the same treatment to its APIs. “Facebook has kept a tight lid on its APIs and for good reason. But ask Amazon, eBay, and other Internet giants where their business models are heading and it’s about opening up ... (Read Full Article)

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iCloud Revamp May Introduce Social Features

Explore TechWeekEurope UK (May 15 2012) Fuel Cell

...sets of photos with other iCloud users, who will be able to comment on them – Apple with a touch of Facebook, it would seem. iCloud Revamp May Introduce Social Features Apple is to introduce an iCloud update ......llion (£311m) in the Maiden data centre. Green data centre This April, Greenpeace lumped Apple with Amazon and Microsoft in a report on cloud solutions, calling out the trio for powering their clouds ... (Read Full Article)

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Microsoft gets earth-friendly, goes carbon neutral

Explore Technology News (May 9 2012) Construction , Fossil Fuel , Cloud Computing

...hase renewable energy and carbon offsets," Turner said. Leading tech companies, like Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Microsoft, use massive amounts of energy, electricity and power. Greenpeace estimates that s... (Read Full Article)

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Open Compute builds a business model for the next era of the web

Explore GigaOM (May 4 2012) Servers

...others are going direct to the companies that build servers for those giants. For companies such as Facebook, Baidu, Zynga, Amazon and Facebook are building at such scale, the idea of wasting a single cent or milliwatt on an unnecessary featur... (Read Full Article)

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Open Compute one year later. Bigger, badder and less disruptive than we thought.

Explore GigaOM (May 2 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing

... will sell OCP gear direct to customers. Quanta’s business is aimed at selling gear to the likes of Facebook, Amazon(a amzn) and other IT buyers who know exactly what they want and just need someone to build it, but ... (Read Full Article)

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Does Facebook have designs on its own chip?

Explore Technology News (May 2 2012) Construction , Fossil Fuel

...s. While designing a chip is a more ambitious undertaking than building a server -- and way outside Facebook's core competency of social networking -- market-leading companies are always looking into alternat......ore business. Apple dove into chip design back in 2008 and has been successful in that venture. And Amazon, a Web-based retailer, designed its own tablet, which quickly became the top-seller on the Android ... (Read Full Article)

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Green Data Centers: Is It Worth Running a “Losing” Race?

Explore Triple Pundit (Apr 26 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing

...eace report include: * Three of the largest IT companies building their business around the cloud – Amazon, Apple and Microsoft – are all rapidly expanding without adequate regard to source of electricity, ......h have become more active in supporting policies to drive greater renewable energy investment. * Facebook, one of the largest online destinations with over 800 million users around the world, has now commi... (Read Full Article)

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Greenpeace Pranks Apple at Flagship Stores, Calls for an End to the Coal-Powered Cloud

Explore TreeHugger (Apr 24 2012) Power and Cooling , Fossil Fuel , Fuel Cell

...adquarters in Seattle. The action is backed by a recent report that chastised Microsoft, Apple, and Amazon for using dirty energy sources to power their data centers, while praising the likes of Facebook and Google for making a dedication to renewables. It's a smart strategy—each of these companies' re... (Read Full Article)

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Apple’s NC data center: transparency and the pressure to go green

Explore GigaOM (Apr 24 2012) Construction , Fuel Cell

... about 45 coal power plants. Apple presumably made the decision to build in North Carolina, just as Facebook has gone to Oregon, because of cheap power. But in the last few years so much attention has focused......awatt data center ‘would be taking the “Apple premium” to a whole new level.’ In fairness to Cook, Amazon’s data center efficiency guru James Hamilton himself estimated that the 500,000 square ... (Read Full Article)

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Apple Responds To Greenpeace Criticism

Explore TechWeekEurope UK (Apr 24 2012) Construction , Fossil Fuel , Fuel Cell

Apple has decided not to remain silent after Greenpeace criticised it, along with Amazon and Microsoft, in a mid-April “How Clean Is Your Cloud?” report, which claimed all three heavily re......of the town of Prineville, Oregon, where it plans to build “a much larger facility, similar to what Facebook has already built”, Jason Carr, the town’s economic development manager, told Wired. In its report ... (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

Greenpeace took aim at Apple, Microsoft and Amazon over how the companies are powering the data centers that house their fast-growing cloud computing ......heir fast-growing cloud computing infrastructures. In a move that is reminiscent of its tussle with Facebook over its first-ever data center build in Prineville, Ore., Greenpeace has zeroed in on clean energy... (Read Full Article)

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Letter to Ballmer, Bezos, Cook: Go to Iceland

Explore SmartPlanet (Apr 20 2012)

Dear Steve Ballmer, Jeff Bezos and Tim Cook - As CEOs of Microsoft, Amazon and Apple, you’re probably aware that the environmental group Greenpeace this week branded each of ......rs that drive your cloud computing operations. It says that compared to other big IT companies like Facebook, Google and Yahoo, you use too much coal and nuclear, and not enough “renewable” power. “Three of t... (Read Full Article)

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Greenpeace's clean cloud push: Hey, they've got a point

Explore Technology News (Apr 20 2012) Construction , Carbon Footprint , Fossil Fuel , Fuel Cell , Wind , Cloud Computing

...amonica Greenpeace makes a splash in Seattle by hanging this sign off a building near Microsoft and Amazon offices. Greenpeace makes a splash in Seattle by hanging this sign off a building near Microsoft an......very difficult to avoid in most areas. And in terms of actually lobbying for policy, Apple, Google, Facebook, et al. would almost certainly rather expend political capital on issues that directly affect them,... (Read Full Article)

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Greenpeace Gives Apple a Valuable Lesson in Stakeholder Engagement

Explore Triple Pundit (Apr 20 2012) Construction , Fuel Cell

...reenpeace’s report How Clean is Your Cloud, which was released earlier this week, focused on Apple, Amazon and Microsoft, which all scored badly for relying on coal and nuclear power for their data centers.......will triple by 2020. This magnitude drives Greenpeace to highlight companies like Google, Yahoo and Facebook that lead the way by moving toward powering their clouds with clean energy, as well as companies t... (Read Full Article)

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Cloud's dirty laundry to be aired by Greenpeace

Explore crn.com.au (Apr 18 2012) Construction , Emissions , Fossil Fuel , Fuel Cell

...e powered. Australia is not mentioned in the report. How service providers fare The report looks at Amazon Web Services, Apple, Dell, Facebook, Google, HP, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Rackspace, Salesforce, Akamai, Twitter and Yahoo. Google ranke... (Read Full Article)

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Web Host TurnKey Internet to Open Green Data Center in New York State

Explore Web Host Industry Review (Apr 18 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing

...o increase. Earlier this week, Greenpeace published its “How Green is Your Cloud” report, which saw Amazon and Facebook receive low ratings. In addition to the new data center, Turnkey also recently installed an advance... (Read Full Article)

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Apple contests Greenpeace's coal-fired data center claims

Explore macworld.com (Apr 18 2012) Construction , Power and Cooling , Carbon Footprint , Fossil Fuel , Fuel Cell

...man. In its report, Greenpeace charged that Apple is “finding itself behind other companies such as Facebook and Google” because of a lack of transparency and commitment to renewable energy. Facebook was noted for its Swedish data center, powered entirely by renewable energy, and Google received hi...... high marks for being more transparent about its energy use and committing to use renewable energy. Amazon and Microsoft however received low marks ... (Read Full Article)

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Greenpeace protesters target Apple's Ireland HQ

Explore Macworld UK (Apr 18 2012) Power and Cooling , Fossil Fuel , Fuel Cell

...w Clean is your Cloud report. Greenpeace launched the report earlier this week, singling out Apple, Amazon and Microsoft for criticism over electricity consumption by the data centres used by the tech giant......ding to the How Clean is Your Cloud report, Apple is "finding itself behind other companies such as Facebook and Google" because of a lack of transparency and commitment to renewable energy. Facebook and Google, however, were ... (Read Full Article)

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