Nebraska Woos Huge ‘Project Edge’ Data Center

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Feb 6 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing

...roject and the the fact that three of the huge companies best known for secretive site selections – Google, Microsoft and Yahoo – already operate major data centers in the region. Google and Microsoft each have facilities in Iowa, while Yahoo has its data center in La Vista. These companies have found that as their Internet infrastructure r... (Read Full Article)

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Who knew? Data center segment is hot, hot, hot!

Explore GigaOM (Jan 10 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing

...big data center and colocation providers. Barnett did note that big Internet content providers like Google, Facebook and Yahoo were not surveyed — so their expansion plans are not factored in. There are also plans to expand me... (Read Full Article)

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2011: The Year Data Centers Turned Green

Explore Wired News (Dec 30 2011)

...nergy efficiency — and no two data centers are alike. Out of necessity, the huge Internet players — Google, Facebook, Amazon, Twitter, Yahoo, and Apple — are finding ways to use greener energy and get more out of the energy they use. Google has continued to earn praise for its energy and environmental practices, and Facebook is actually s... (Read Full Article)

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The cloud shouldn’t be an over the top service

Explore GigaOM (Dec 6 2011) Cloud Computing , Networking

...inman’s view of the intelligent network? Yes, but it takes skill and dedication that places such as Google, Yahoo, Facebook and other webscale operators have, and other companies just don’t seem to want to bother ... (Read Full Article)

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Google to Expand Oregon Data Center Campus

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Nov 23 2011) Cloud Computing

...d on the front page of The New York Times, Information Week and in many photos on Flickr. A copy of Google’s site plan was published by Harpers. But don’t expect to see similar images on Google Maps. Although the Google buildings in The Dalles are clearly visible on rival mapping sites from Microsoft and Yahoo, they are nowhere to be found on Google Maps, which appears to ... (Read Full Article)

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How solar can make data centers more efficient

Explore GigaOM (Nov 10 2011) Solar , Cloud Computing , Servers

...ses, which become heat and requires the use of cooling equipment. Giant data farm operators such as Yahoo, Facebook and Google are always looking for lower-cost and efficient way to cool their data centers. Using solar to dire... (Read Full Article)

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Disney and YouTube Make a Video Deal

Explore The New York Times (Nov 6 2011)

...e announced on Monday, is small on its surface: Disney Interactive Media and YouTube, a division of Google, will spend a combined $10 million to $15 million on original video series; those shorts will be pr......giving too much away at no charge. Mr. Pitaro, who joined Disney last October after a stint running Yahoo’s media properties, pressed for the deal. He said the redesign of Disney.com — a ... (Read Full Article)

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Green Q&A: What impact does online time have on the environment?

Explore Home - San Jose Mercury News (Oct 29 2011) Carbon Footprint , Cloud Computing , Servers

...e gas emissions by an amount equivalent to taking some 2 million cars off the road. For its part, Google has been a real leader in the building of green data centers, even powering them with renewable ene......cilities ever designed and constructed -- from a utility that derives most of its power from coal.) Yahoo, Amazon and Microsoft scored best in use of renewable alternative energy sources for cloud services... (Read Full Article)

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Apple building solar farm for data center

Explore GigaOM (Oct 25 2011) Solar , Cloud Computing

...ommonly are relatively small and can only power a small portion of data center’s power needs. While Google, Yahoo, Facebook and others have been rather vocal about their interest in clean power and greener data ce... (Read Full Article)

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Prudential Financial: 1,000 servers moved into a virtual environment

Explore IDG News Service (Oct 24 2011) Solar

...uTube channel gets hijacked and wiped clean Steve Jobs bio debuts at No. 1 spot on bestseller lists Google: Bidding for Yahoo or driving up cost for Microsoft? Jaguar recalls 18,000 cars over cruise control software fault BSA... (Read Full Article)

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Google Wants to Show Why the Cloud Means Bigger is Greener

Explore GreenBiz.com (Oct 20 2011) Carbon Footprint , Cloud Computing , Servers

...d for the rest of us -- and, importantly, for the planet. Indeed, cloud-based computing -- the way Google, Amazon, Yahoo!, Microsoft and Facebook and others provide you with data storage and software from their servers -... (Read Full Article)

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Shifting mindset to an Information Factory from a Data Center, the industrialization of the data

Explore greenm3.com (Oct 13 2011) Cloud Computing

... case web companies they forgo the warehouse). And speaking of web companies Hopkins explains Google, Yahoo, and Facebook used big data to deal with web scale search, content relevance, and social connection... (Read Full Article)

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What green really means for colos

Explore DatacenterDynamics (Sep 29 2011) Carbon Footprint , Carbon Tax , Cloud Computing

...years have gained attention because they are considered ‘green’. You only have to look at Facebook, Google and Yahoo!, all of which are using innovative and environmentally friendly cooling, building on brownfield si... (Read Full Article)

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Buildings house secret servers that keep net humming

Explore usatoday.com (Sep 22 2011)

...amples of the new economy rising up in the footprints of the old," he says. Giant companies such as Google, Facebook, Apple, Yahoo and Amazon often build their data centers in rural areas. "They're looking for cheap power and chea... (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

...erdantix put Alibaba, Amazon, Baidu, Expedia, Facebook, Netflix, Priceline, Salesforce, Tencent and Yahoo! under the microscope in addition to Akamai, Apple, eBay and Google. "You have in the study a number of firms that have a very high global profile, and you would have... (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

... Verdantix report, the lack of transparency isn’t necessarily about the lack of data. It notes that Yahoo! and Google have been measuring their carbon footprints since 2006, before this sort of thing became a really p... (Read Full Article)

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Hacking in Netherlands Points to Weak Spot in Web Security

Explore The New York Times (Sep 12 2011)

...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 generate dig... (Read Full Article)

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Once a Leader, Yahoo Now Struggles to Find Its Way

Explore The New York Times (Sep 7 2011)

...targeted way.” Advertisers are attracted to information that Facebook has about a user’s friends or Google has about a user’s search queries, he said. Mr. Hallerman compared Yahoo and its audience to the mass-circulation magazines of the 1960s, like Life and Look. Those publicat... (Read Full Article)

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Facebook Engineer: Cut Power by Slowing Hard Drives

Explore The New York Times (Aug 19 2011) Storage

... at changing an HDD’s speed would have to be an ongoing process. But the thing about Facebook — and Google, Yahoo and other large web sites — is that they innovate based on their unique needs, not what’s appropria... (Read Full Article)

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Google keeps its Googlers going via green buildings

Explore siliconrepublic.com (Aug 19 2011) Power and Cooling , Carbon Footprint , Solar

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Shifting to Chiller-Less Data

Explore Scientific Computing (Aug 2 2011) Carbon Footprint , Cloud Computing , Servers

...abling chiller-less facility designs. New data center construction exemplified by companies such as Google, Facebook and Yahoo has demonstrated a shift toward fresh air-cooled data centers that do not rely on chiller technolog... (Read Full Article)

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A sneak peek into Google’s servers and energy efficiency

Explore GigaOM (Aug 1 2011) Cloud Computing , Servers

...DC figures. So Koomey wanted to see how big of an omission it was to use the IDC figure and exclude Google. He based the estimates for Google on known electricity use he got from Google and data center floor space, as well as from media reports. Data Center Panel: Christina Page, Yahoo, and Bill Weihl, Google at Green:Net 2011 Yet despite that Google has so many servers, Koomey ... (Read Full Article)

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Report: Data Center Energy Use is Moderating

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Aug 1 2011) Cloud Computing , Servers

...riod reviewed in the  Koomey tracks a time of dynamic growth for the data center industry, in which Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Facebook and Apple all built enormous cloud data centers, while service providers fille... (Read Full Article)

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Dell Builds Efficient ‘Microsite’ Data Centre For Microsoft

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Jul 30 2011)

...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 cooling Del... (Read Full Article)

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