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1. Why Greenpeace Likes Google, Not Facebook by Peter Judge
  
  Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT Apr 28 2013
  
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  And big data centers run by governments are less open to the kind of tactics Greenpeace uses. .
  
  Greenpeace doesn’t go after Microsoft, eBay or Amazon either - perhaps because it simply doesn’t r...
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2. Facebook Goes Real-Time With Data Center Efficiency Stats
  
  Explore Greentech Media Apr 18 2013 Construction , Cloud Computing
  
  ... data. Tags: apple, big data, carbon, data center, energy efficiency, facebook, google, green data, green it, greenpeace, hp, ibm, intel, joulex, microsoft ...
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3. Top 5 Data Center Stories, Week of Jan. 23
  
  Explore Data Center Knowledge Mar 23 2013 Construction , Cloud Computing
  
  ...d density out of bleeding-edge facilities is the next phase in the data center arms race. It’s a process that Microsoft has undertaken with its Dublin data center, and other leading players will be pursuing as they seek ...
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4. Apple switches data centers to 100% renewable energy
  
  Explore The Register Mar 21 2013 Construction , Power and Cooling , Emissions , Fuel Cell , Geothermal , Solar
  
  ...ls shake green tech tree (19 November 2012) Greenpeace, unions attack 'secret UN plans to seize the INTERNETS' (16 November 2012) Google charms Greenpeace with wind powered data center deal (26 September 2012) ...
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5. Salesforce pledges to form a greener cloud
  
  Explore GreenBiz.com Mar 6 2013 Construction , Emissions , Cloud Computing
  
  ...y announced that it had become one of the largest companies in the world to achieve "carbon neutral" status. "Greenpeace applauds Salesforce for joining Google and Facebook in the growing club of global technology compan...
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6. How to make the cloud more sustainable and resilient
  
  Explore GigaOM Oct 21 2012 Construction , Emissions , Fossil Fuel
  
  ...eport, which launched a media firestorm and summer-long naysaying campaigns from the likes of Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Apple and Facebook. This data wound was reopened at the end of September in an eye-opening article ...
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7. Greenpeace and data centers: a tough love
  
  Explore DatacenterDynamics Oct 10 2012 Construction , Power and Cooling , Emissions , Fossil Fuel , Wind
  
  ...n the side of the structure, facing a nearby building occupied by Microsoft offices. The banner read: Amazon, Microsoft: how clean isyour cloud? This was two days after Greenpeace published its latest How clean is your c...
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8. New York Times rant exposes data center complacency by Peter Judge
  
  Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT Oct 1 2012
  
  ...rticular point about whether Microsoft did or did not burn off electricity to avoid a fine from its provider. Microsoft has denied it - though it’s a somewhat evasive answer, compared to the actual numbers quoted in the ...
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9. Top 5 Data Center Stories, Week of Sept. 29
  
  Explore Data Center Knowledge Sep 29 2012 Construction , Wind , Cloud Computing
  
  ... of data – a volume corresponding to 2.7 million DVDs. Microsoft’s Energy Practices in Quincy Under Fire – Is Microsoft reducing its data center energy usage because it’s the right thing to do for the environment and loc...
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10. Google Signs Utility Deal To Power Data Center With Wind Energy
  
  Explore Forbes.com Sep 26 2012 Construction , Emissions , Fuel Cell , Wind
  
  ...e at Microsoft, which was slammed in The New York Times series for its data center practices. “Unlike Google, Microsoft has yet to significantly invest in clean energy,” Cook said. “Microsoft has instead continue to buil...
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11. The non-utopian side of data centers by Doug Mohney
  
  Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT Sep 26 2012
  
  ...esel operations in Silicon Valley and Quinsy, Washington. The Bay Area Air Quality Management District listed Microsoft's Santa Clara data center as one of the largest stationary diesel polluters in the area in 2008 and ...
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12. Report Paints Unflattering Picture Of Microsoft Cloud
  
  Explore da.feedsportal.com Sep 25 2012
  
  ... April, activists for Greenpeace rappelled down Amazon’s headquarters in Seattle, across the street from Microsoft offices, to unfurl an 800-square-foot cloud-shaped banner that asked, “Amazon, Microsoft, how clea...
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13. The New IT Competitive Edge: Sustainability
  
  Explore Data Center Knowledge Sep 24 2012 Construction , Power and Cooling , Emissions , Fossil Fuel
  
  ... the increased scrutiny around data center energy consumption were the Greenpeace protests against Amazon and Microsoft earlier this year, drawing attention towards carbon-emitting facilities. Built to accommodate the pr...
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14. Exclusive Pics: Apple Breaks Ground at Mystery Data Center
  
  Explore Wired News Aug 2 2012 Construction , Power and Cooling , Fuel Cell
  
  ...ile Apple promotes the data center as the very model of energy self-sufficiency, it has come under fire from Greenpeace for situating the data center on Duke Energy’s power grid, which provides cheap energy that is larg...
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15. Iceland should be the clean, green future of datacentres. So why aren't more firms going there?
  
  Explore zdnet.com Jul 30 2012 Emissions
  
  ...een calls recently for Microsoft, Apple and Amazon to move all their data centres to Iceland, often touted by Greenpeace as a low carbon output location compared to the US, seemingly addicted to using dirty energy source...
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16. Greenpeace Upgrades Apple’s iCloud Ratings but Hammers It for Lack of Transparency
  
  Explore Triple Pundit Jul 18 2012 Construction , Fossil Fuel , Geothermal
  
  ...ys (i.e. Google, Yahoo, Facebook) rather than one of the bad guys (Amazon, Microsoft)? Well, not if you ask Greenpeace. The devil apparently is not just in the details, but also in communicating them. First, the detai...
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17. Apple's Clean Energy Promise Draws Greenpeace Skepticism
  
  Explore eweek.com Jul 14 2012 Construction , Emissions , Fossil Fuel , Fuel Cell
  
  ...e from Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Microsoft to Facebook, Twitter and Google. Apple's Clean Energy Promise Draws Greenpeace Skepticism By: Robert J. Mullins 2012-07-14 Article Rating: star star star star star / 0 There ar...
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18. Greenpeace: Apple’s clean energy plans still cloudy
  
  Explore newsbytes.ph Jul 14 2012 Construction , Emissions , Fossil Fuel , Fuel Cell , Solar
  
  ...hout pushing Duke toward that goal as well, Greenpeace said. More than 250,000 customers of Apple, Amazon and Microsoft have written to the companies asking for a cleaner cloud since Greenpeace launched its Clean Our Clo...
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19. The controversial world of clean power and data centers
  
  Explore GigaOM Jul 11 2012 Construction , Emissions , Fossil Fuel , Fuel Cell , Solar
  
  ...end has also been helped by environmentalists like Greenpeace. In early 2011 Facebook became the subject of a Greenpeace campaign to try to get the social network giant to “unfriend coal,” or stop building its data cente...
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20. 10 reasons Apple, Facebook & Google chose North Carolina for their mega data centers
  
  Explore GigaOM Jul 10 2012 Construction , Fuel Cell , Solar
  
  ...al governments slashed Apple’s real estate taxes by 50 percent and property taxes by 85 percent, according to Greenpeace. Google (which was the first in the area, back in 2006) scored about $212 million in savings over 3...
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21. Are IT Data Centers Emerging as a Killer App for Green Power? Part II
  
  Explore environmentalleader.com Jun 25 2012 Construction , Emissions , Fossil Fuel , Fuel Cell , Solar , Wind , Cloud Computing
  
  ... a grid-independent data centers powered by fuel cells directly supplied with biogas. To provide the biogas, Microsoft is exploring siting data centers at landfills and wastewater treatment plants. AT&T and NTT America...
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22. Are IT Data Centers Emerging as a ‘Killer App’ for Green Power? Part I
  
  Explore environmentalleader.com Jun 21 2012 Construction , Emissions , Fossil Fuel , Cloud Computing , Servers
  
  ...rt II will run on Monday. Recently, 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 powering their data cent...
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23. Renewable Energy in Today's Data Center
  
  Explore Data Center Knowledge May 30 2012 Construction , Cap and Trade , Carbon Tax , Emissions , Fossil Fuel , Fuel Cell , Solar , Wind
  
  ...with Greenpeace by agreeing to add the availability of renewable energy to their data center siting criteria. Microsoft announced recently that it plans to go carbon neutral through the purchase of RECs and carbon offset...
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24. Renewable Energy in Today’s Data Center
  
  Explore Data Center Knowledge May 30 2012 Construction , Cap and Trade , Carbon Tax , Emissions , Fossil Fuel , Fuel Cell , Solar , Wind
  
  ...with Greenpeace by agreeing to add the availability of renewable energy to their data center siting criteria. Microsoft announced recently that it plans to go carbon neutral through the purchase of RECs and carbon offset...
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