Google Tops Greenpeace's Cool IT Rankings

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

...s victory is transparency, at least when it comes to the environmental impact of its IT operations. Greenpeace's Gary Cook noted the following on the organization's blog: "Google is way ahead on climate solutions and energy impacts, thanks to its disclosure of its energy footpr... (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

... Cloud Computing, Computers & Gadgets, Corporate Reporting, Energy Efficiency, Policy & Regulations Greenpeace Puts Google, Cisco, Fujitsu at Top of Green IT Rankings Greenpeace today released the latest version of its Cool IT Leaderboard, tracking progress among 21 IT compani... (Read Full Article)

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Facebook Recruits Google Green Energy Czar for Sustainability Push

Explore CIO.com (Dec 21 2011) Construction , Wind , Cloud Computing

...ok's reliance on coal at 53.2 percent, second only to Apple's (at 54.5 percent) and far higher than Google's (34.7 percent) or Amazon's (28.5 percent). Greenpeace based its estimates on published figures for data centre power consumption and electricity utilitie... (Read Full Article)

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Google Energy Czar Weihl Moves to Facebook

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Dec 20 2011) Fossil Fuel , Wind

...mes as Facebook is deepending its commitment to use renewable energy as part of an agreement with Greenpeace. Weihl’s move was first reported by Greenmonk, and has been confirmed by Facebook. Weihl left Google in November after six years at Google, during which he championed the company’s efforts to boost its use of renewable energy in its data ... (Read Full Article)

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U.S. Tech Giants Become Alternative Energy's Fairy Godfathers

Explore news.thomasnet.com (Nov 8 2011) Fossil Fuel , Geothermal , Wind

...mpany also made a $38.8 million investment in a wind project located on the plains of North Dakota. Google is currently operating a program its calling “REGreenpeace, most notably) over the efficiency of its many data centers. (Not to mention its legions of users, ... (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

...07, "even that small amount of energy is offset completely, so the carbon footprint of your life on Google is zero." In an April 2011 report titled "How Dirty Is Your Data?" the nonprofit Greenpeace examined energy sources for the 10 largest IT companies involved in cloud computing, finding Apple,... (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 ......I’ve heard about Apple showing any interest in providing its data centers with clean power. In fact Greenpeace estimated that Apple only sourced 6 percent of the power for its data centers from clean ... (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

...ys. The company designs its own servers and data centers. "We've saved, easily, over $1 billion for Google," he says. Lately, environmental groups, notably Greenpeace International, have put a spotlight on the data centers run by consumer-facing tech giants. In a re... (Read Full Article)

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What's behind Iceland's first major data center

Explore ITworld (Oct 14 2011)

... 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...... continues to grow, so will the amount of energy required to power data centers. Organizations like Greenpeace (see their “Dirty Data Campaign”) have already been active in trying to mobilize consumer and inves... (Read Full Article)

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Study: Internet Firms Lagging On Green Strategy

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Sep 13 2011) Carbon Footprint , Emissions

...fer – our servers use less energy per user than a light left on for three hours,” said Urs Hoelzle, Google’s senior vice president of technical infrastructure, in a blog post. Group campaigner Greenpeace, which has run a campaign against Facebook’s use of coal-fired electricity, and has called fo... (Read Full Article)

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Google Releases Details on its Carbon Footprint

Explore Triple Pundit (Sep 13 2011) Carbon Footprint

When it comes to increasing the energy efficiency of its data centers, Google use concepts such as keeping the data centers warm so they can spend less on cooling, designing eac......e the climate problem via efficiency – we must move to cleaner sources of energy.” He is not alone. Greenpeace reached the same conclusion, mentioning on its ‘How Dirty is Your Data’ report, that “energy effici... (Read Full Article)

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Google Data Centers Use More Power than Salt Lake City

Explore environmentalleader.com (Sep 9 2011) Carbon Footprint , Solar , Cloud Computing

...y little actual data on its operational footprint or energy use,” the report added. In that report, Greenpeace did say that Google is taking positive steps to improve the impact of its energy supply, by making direct investments i... (Read Full Article)

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Google’s Energy Story: High Efficiency, Huge Scale

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Sep 8 2011) Carbon Footprint , Cloud Computing , Servers

Google used about 2.26 million megawatt hours of electricity to run its operations in 2010, generating a c......t spends on carbon offsets. Nonetheless, today’s data represents a step towards the recent calls by Greenpeace for improved disclosure of the energy required to run Internet infrastructure. In April the environ... (Read Full Article)

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Google reveals electricity use, aims for a third clean power by 2012

Explore GigaOM (Sep 8 2011) Carbon Footprint , Emissions , Fossil Fuel , Wind

...s electricity consumption before, citing competitive reasons, and if you remember earlier this year Greenpeace gave Google an “F’ for transparency. Google’s new transparency about its electricity consumption and carbon footprint is part of a new trend of... (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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Is There a Silver Lining for the Environment in Cloud Computing?

Explore Science News, Articles and Information (Aug 10 2011) Carbon Footprint , Cloud Computing , Servers

...ses, this could include websites or networks that are hosted remotely. For individuals, it could be Google documents, digital storage space and so forth. There is no question that computing needs are expand......keeping and financial transactions as forces pushing up the demand for data processing and storage. Greenpeace estimated that cloud computing worldwide demanded 662 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity in 2007... (Read Full Article)

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Who will be the new Carbon Data Center target for Greenpeace?

Explore greenm3.com (Jul 8 2011) Emissions , Cloud Computing

...nters have carbon impacts. I have some ideas who would be the next potential targets for Greenpeace identifying a high carbon data center.  We'll see if I can figure out who the next Greenpeace data center target is. I wrote two years ago, thinking the targets where Apple, Google, or Microsoft, but Facebook surprised us all as the data center target for Greenpeace. My guess is it is going ... (Read Full Article)

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Does it require a real crisis to produce real change? by peter judge

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Jun 13 2011)

... us that Apple’s iCloud is on coal-fired electricity, which won’t satisfy environmentalists such as Greenpeace.  Whatever Apple and Amazon do, power costs are increasing, and the energy mix is shifting, so th......d the energy mix is shifting, so there will be a move to generating electricity on-site - something Google is doing in its latest Finnish data center. The sea-water cooling is a good idea, but also electric... (Read Full Article)

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Tangled Worldwide Web for online pollution

Explore canadaeast.com (Jun 13 2011) Carbon Footprint , Carbon Tax , Emissions , Fossil Fuel

...n various Facebook pages, groups and apps. "People are pretty concerned about it," David Kessler, a Greenpeace spokesman in San Francisco. In Lenoir, N.C., Google's $600-million, super-sized data centre offers employees the kind of unusual perks that were the ha... (Read Full Article)

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How Green Is Apple’s iCloud?

Explore Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Jun 8 2011) Cloud Computing

...ng while – now it is selling access to content which it stores in a massive data centre. Amazon and Google have similar offerings and argue that cloud offerings just give users a new place to store content ...... biggest in the US. It is also one of the world’s dirtiest, according to Apple’s long-time nemesis, Greenpeace. (Read Full Article)

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Dirty data: The Internet's giant carbon footprint

Explore canada.com (Jun 4 2011) Carbon Footprint , Carbon Tax , Emissions , Fossil Fuel

...n various Facebook pages, groups and apps. “People are pretty concerned about it,” David Kessler, a Greenpeace spokesman in San Francisco. In Lenoir, N.C., Google’s $600-million, super-sized data centre offers employees the kind of unusual perks that were the ha... (Read Full Article)

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Google to Switch on World's First Seawater-Cooled Data Center This Fall

Explore GigaOM (May 24 2011) Nuclear

... to show of data center efficiency designs, too, a healthy competition has emerged. By the Numbers: Greenpeace's Green Data Center Report Card.and more » Google to Switch on Seawater-Cooled Data Center This Fall By Katie Fehrenbacher May. 24, 2011, 4:00am PT 6... (Read Full Article)

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Adopt 'right balance' for green clouds

Explore zdnetasia.com (May 23 2011) Carbon Footprint , Fossil Fuel , Solar , Wind , Cloud Computing

...to grapple with the problem of powering their services with clean, renewable energy sources such as Google and Yahoo, noted Daniel Kessler, communication manager at Greenpeace International. Others such as Facebook have made decisions that will increase its demand for coal p... (Read Full Article)

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Facts and Figures Behind Greenpeace’s Green Data Center Report

Explore GigaOM (Apr 26 2011) Monitoring

What are the facts and figures behind Greenpeace’s big data center report card last week? While much of the coverage of the report focused on the A-......eek? While much of the coverage of the report focused on the A-to-F grades ranking Apple, Facebook, Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, IBM and others, the report also laid out some broad categories where IT giants c... (Read Full Article)

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