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Explore GigaOM (13 hours, 57 min ago) Construction , Power and Cooling , Fuel Cell , Solar

... go with 3G and 4G data connections have meant that 2007’s figure really no longer applies. However Greenpeace’s 2010 report “Make IT Green,” predicts the demand for data center electricity will more than tripl......son, a seasoned technology Executive with over 15 years international sales experience, worked with Cisco Systems, Business Objects (a SAP company) and NetSuite, in charge of both EMEA and NA territories. Prior to... (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 attentio......ively offsetting emissions from data center electricity use. Leading IT companies Intel, Microsoft, Cisco, and Dell are among the top purchasers of RECs. In fact, Intel is top green power purchaser in the ... (Read Full Article)

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Is Solar Power for Data Centers a Bad Idea?

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Mar 19 2012) Construction , Solar

...ars, arrays of photovoltaic solar panels have been announced for data centers from Apple, Facebook, Cisco and Emerson Network Power. But do these solar arrays make sense, given the current economics of sol......hat the flurry of on-site solar arrays appeared after Facebook took a public relations beating from Greenpeace, which launched a high-profile “Unfriend Dirty Coal” campaign to protest the low volume of renewabl... (Read Full Article)

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Google Tops Greenpeace's Cool IT Rankings

Explore EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet (Feb 8 2012) Construction , Carbon Footprint , Fuel Cell , Wind

...m, but Google has another reason today to gloat. It was just ranked as the greenest tech company by Greenpeace in its latest edition of its Cool IT Leaderboard. This time, Google "wrested control" of the top sp......latest edition of its Cool IT Leaderboard. This time, Google "wrested control" of the top spot from Cisco, which last took the lead in December 2010's list and placed second this ... (Read Full Article)

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Greenpeace Puts Google, Cisco, Fujitsu at Top of Green IT Rankings

Explore GreenBiz.com (Feb 7 2012) Construction , Solar , Cloud Computing

...ady increase in the quantity and strength of energy solutions offerings from many companies such as Cisco, IBM, Ericsson and Fujitsu," Greenpeace writes in the intro to the report, "we also see a significant reduction in policy advocacy to chang... (Read Full Article)

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A Green Cloud Is a Transparent Cloud

Explore Reuters.com (Jun 13 2011) Emissions , Cloud Computing

Comment Mentions:   Greenpeace   Yahoo   Cisco

More Green than you can shake a stick at by Doug Moheny

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Apr 11 2011)

...Day celebrations.  Bill Weihl will once again be appearing, along with representatives from Yahoo!, Cisco, Microsoft, and a bunch of VC and energy firms.  Om Malik will be moderating a discussion of greene......r to a total strange. And to cap the month off, there's Earth Day 2011 on April 22.  Earth Day is Greenpeace's extortion deadline to Facebook.   If Facebook doesn't repent its use of coal ... (Read Full Article)

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Green power buyers? You might be surprised - By Doug Mohney

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Nov 3 2010)

...ove its current power load.   Number 7 on EPA's top green power purchases, Dell has been flogged by Greenpeace in the past for building electronics with PVCs and brominated flame retardants (BFRs).   Maybe Dell......nts (BFRs).   Maybe Dell could buy some credits for Facebook's data center to balance the scales? Cisco is only at number twelve on the list (270 million kWh), but I feel they should get ... (Read Full Article)

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Time To Think of Lower Energy Networks? - by Peter Judge

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Sep 27 2010)

...n power usage in its data center switches (maybe it could stand a bit of bullying from a group like Greenpeace!). So any Cisco competitor that can’t beat it on that score ought to be a bit ashamed.   It is certainly worth... (Read Full Article)

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Green:Net 2010

Explore TreeHugger (Apr 30 2010) Carbon Footprint

...hile others are merely signaling commitments, hoping that lofty words are as good as action." While Cisco was rewarded, Greenpeace shook a finger at the entire IT industry, saying it simply isn't doing enough right now to implemen... (Read Full Article)

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Cisco, Ericsson Top Greenpeace IT leaders ranking

Explore environmentalleader.com (Apr 30 2010) Carbon Footprint

Cisco and Ericsson top the latest update to Greenpeace’s Cool IT Leaderboard list, while Panasonic, Sony and Sharp rank at the bottom. Findings indicate t... (Read Full Article)

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IBM Hopes To Trigger UK Nuclear Renaissance

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Feb 9 2010) Emissions , Fossil Fuel , Nuclear

...eving both security of supply and reduction in carbon emissions." Environmental campaigners such as Greenpeace, however, believe that investment in developing nuclear technology is a distraction from innovation......hat we will reduce our dependency on oil and gas in the next five years. UCS was supposed to launch Cisco into the server market, but instead it has undermined the company's data centre… (Read Full Article)

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