A more sustainable cloud through transparency & change

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

...el cell 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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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 protocol will s... (Read Full Article)

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A Glimpse Inside Google’s Data Centers

Explore Data Center Knowledge (May 22 2012) Servers

... showcased older technology, it’s possible that these photos may not represent the current state of Google’s production environment. Or perhaps the Story of Send marks the beginning of a shift, in which Google discloses more of its current technology, as Facebook has done with the Open Compute Project. If not, we’ll continue to analyze and speculate until more ... (Read Full Article)

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The Facebook Fallacy

Explore Technology Review (May 22 2012)

...here is, in fact, one company that created and harnessed a transformation in behavior and business: Google. Facebook could be, or in many people's eyes should be, something similar. Lost in such analysis is the failu... (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

...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 America. Facebook, which didn’t exist nine years ago, just went public at a valuation of nearly $105 billion — two we... (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

...has led 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—whic... (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

...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......gy from the wind farms are provided to the local electric grid and sold to the local utility, while Google retains the renewable energy certificates (RECs) and applies them to energy used at their data cent... (Read Full Article)

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Why Facebook’s IPO is Good for the Data Center Industry

Explore Data Center Knowledge (May 18 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing

...llion in capital expenditures, a number that is dedicated predominantly to Internet infrastructure. Facebook’s requirements don’t yet match the scale required by Microsoft and Google. But its costs are also lower because it originally opted to lease space. The social network curren... (Read Full Article)

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

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

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)

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G.M. to Quit Facebook Ad Campaign Worth $10 Million a Year

Explore The New York Times (May 15 2012)

...; its advertising revenue had been growing quickly but remains small compared with competitors like Google. In a public filing last month, Facebook said that its first-quarter ad revenue had actually declined to $872 million from $943 million in t... (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 ......m expects Apple to sell 6.3 million iPods during the June quarter and 4.5 million Macs. Do you know Google’s secrets? To find out, take our quiz. (Read Full Article)

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Bing Search Engine to Be Revamped as War Against Google Intensifies

Explore The New York Times (May 10 2012)

...e Internet search business, it also competes with Microsoft in productivity applications and with Facebook through its Google Plus social network. And like Microsoft, Google earlier this year began to integrate data from its social network into its search results through a... (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

...ill purchase 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 estimate... (Read Full Article)

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VMware: ‘The software-defined data center is coming’

Explore GigaOM (May 9 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing

...ter." Via virtualizations and SDNs, software-defined data centers will bring the dynamic natures of Google, Facebook and Zynga data centers into the mainstream. VMware CTO Steve Herrod is taking the stage at Interop ... (Read Full Article)

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Top 10 Data Center Stories, April 2012

Explore Data Center Knowledge (May 9 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing

...nter news by subscribing to our RSS feed and daily e-mail updates, or by following us on Twitter or Facebook. DCK is now on Google+. (Read Full Article)

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Open Compute Shakes Up Server Supply Chain

Explore Data Center Knowledge (May 8 2012) Cloud Computing , Servers

...DMs have historically kept a low profile while customizing designs for bulk sales to companies like Google and Facebook. Last week two large server customizers,Quanta Computer and ZT Systems, announced product offerings... (Read Full Article)

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Open Compute - Yes it really is radical! by Peter Judge

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (May 6 2012)

...cloud data centre, you want bare-bones equipment with no frills, and for some time now, people like Facebook, Google and Zynga have been going direct to the people that make equipment for the likes of IBM, HP and Del... (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

...h time a user loads the page. Cutting costs in IT has huge effects on the bottom line. For example, Facebook spent 16 percent and Google both spent about 9 percent of its revenue on infrastructure and capital expenditures in 2011.For de... (Read Full Article)

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It’s not easy being green: Data center edition

Explore GigaOM (May 2 2012) Construction , Fuel Cell , Wind , Cloud Computing

...it held today in San Antonio, Texas. Bill Weihl, manager of energy efficiency and sustainability at Facebook and the former energy czar at Google, moderated the panel that also featured the head of sustainability for Rackspace; someone building ... (Read Full Article)

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Updated: Nordics emerge as top green datacentre location

Explore businessgreen.com (Apr 30 2012) Construction , Power and Cooling , Geothermal

...was a clear trend towards large companies locating data centres in colder climates. "On the back of Google and Facebook's decisions to locate in Sweden and Finland, all the inward investment agencies are able to use tha... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Iceland   Europe   Google

Nordic Countries Increasingly Attractive as Sites for Data Centers

Explore The New York Times (Apr 30 2012)

...countries are relative newcomers. But they have joined the contest at a time when Apple, Microsoft, Facebook and Google, among other companies, are competing with one another to create more energy efficient operations. ... (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

...ve alternately held up the world’s largest IT companies and data center operators, including Apple, Google and Microsoft, for public applause or chastisement based on their energy usage, energy policies and......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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As Facebook grows, so do its data center needs

Explore GigaOM (Apr 20 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing

...asurement for the entire facility of 1.06 to 1.08. (Related: Whose data centers are more efficient: Google’s or Facebook’s?) * The new facility is using the Open Compute Project’s outdoor-air cooling designs. (Read: Facebook open sources its servers and data centers.) In addition, there are two more facts about the data ce... (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

...ng companies are guilty of the same. In the organization's "How Clean is Your Cloud?" report (PDF), Facebook, Google and Yahoo! are hailed for their efforts to power their clouds from renewal energy sources. Greenpea... (Read Full Article)

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