Facebook and Greenpeace Make Peace on Renewable Energy

Explore Web Host Industry Review (Dec 15 2011) Fossil Fuel , Cloud Computing

...t to renewable energy raises the bar for other IT and cloud computing companies such as Apple, IBM, Microsoft, and Twitter," Casey Harrell, senior IT analyst for Greenpeace International said in a statement. ''The Facebook campaign proved that people all over the world wa... (Read Full Article)

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Greenpeace, Facebook Announce Truce

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Dec 15 2011) Fossil Fuel , Cloud Computing

... renewable energy raises the bar for other IT and cloud computing (8) companies such as Apple, IBM, Microsoft, and Twitter,” said Casey Harrell, Senior IT Analyst for Greenpeace International. ”The Facebook campaign proved that people all over the world want their social netwo... (Read Full Article)

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Academia, industry team up for better green data centers - By Doug Mohney

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Nov 9 2011)

...mpanies "representing the entire supply chain for data centers" have signed up as members including Microsoft, IBM, Facebook, Commscope, Bloomberg, General Electric, Corning Inc., Endicott Interconnect Technol......and Steel Orca; it's very cool that Facebook (much berated by coal-and-nuclear-powered-server using Greenpeace) keep bubbling up on its own when it comes to greener data centers and energy efficiency. Everyon... (Read Full Article)

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Global server farms around the world

Explore Telegraph.co.uk (Oct 26 2011) Solar , Servers

...19, using an air-cooling system to reduce power usage. Nonetheless, Facebook has been criticised by Greenpeace because the power it does use if 63pc coal generated. Built in 2006, this was one of the first serv......for hte UK’s Colt Telecoms, but they decided to open it out to other customers. Quincy, Washington (Microsoft, Yahoo!, Dell) The cluster of server farms in this formerly sleepy farming community, probably rank... (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

...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 -- turns out ....... "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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Google keeps its Googlers going via green buildings

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

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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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Adopt 'right balance' for green clouds

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

...f service delivered to internal or external users, Carter said. The analyst's comments come after a Greenpeace report revealed that servers in date canters are predominantly running on "dirty", non-renewable en......lved in the storing and transmitting of data among 10 global IT companies, including Google, Apple, Microsoft and Yahoo. However, it did concede that its findings were gleaned from "limited" information availa... (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-...... 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 can be lauded for d... (Read Full Article)

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greenpeace shifts its sights to apple - by Peter Judge

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Apr 25 2011)

...s carry on much as before, But the day saw a shift in the ongoing PR war over data center energy. Greenpeace’s report, How Dirty is your Data ranked ten leading cloud IT companies according to how “dirty” ele......ata centers of ten companies altogether - the full roster is Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Twitter, IBM, Microsoft, HP, Akamai and Amazon. I think there are three interesting side issues thrown up ... (Read Full Article)

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Greenpeace Ramps Up Pressure on Facebook’s Coal Use

Explore The New York Times (Apr 13 2011) Fossil Fuel

...h Day on April 22. A day before Earth Day, on April 21 at our Green:Net 2011 event (register here), Greenpeace will release a report that details how cloud-focused companies from Facebook to Google to Microsoft to Apple are using clean energy to power their clouds. Greenpeace started its campaign to convince Facebook to move away from using coal to power its data center ear... (Read Full Article)

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

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

...ebrations.  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 greener data cent......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 ... (Read Full Article)

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Green challenges in the data center

Explore DatacenterDynamics (Mar 7 2011) Power and Cooling , Fossil Fuel , Geothermal , Solar , Wind , Cloud Computing

...ent truth of that statement from Michael Adams, AEG Power Solutions’ global VP of data and IT. With Greenpeace estimating in its recent report, titled Cloud Computing and its Contribution to Climate Change, tha......t, also holds largely true for the various guises of hydropower. While it may work for the likes of Microsoft’s data center in Quincy, Washington, US, which is said to be 100% water powered, and ... (Read Full Article)

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Green Grid Creates Metrics for Carbon and Water

Explore pcworld.com (Dec 2 2010) Monitoring , Carbon Tax , Emissions , Cloud Computing , Servers

...id. PUE, or Power Usage Effectiveness, has been adopted widely in the past few years. Google and Microsoft often boast about their PUE numbers, and more enterprises are starting to calculate their PUE as a ......'t available at press time. Data centers are under pressure to be more environmentally responsible. Greenpeace has targeted cloud computing as a source of global warming, and in Europe there are already carbon ... (Read Full Article)

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Inside the Race to Green Data Centers

Explore The New York Times (Dec 1 2010) Servers

...xt Video Game Star? * Google-Backed Satellite Provider O3b Raises $1.2B to Bring the World Online * Microsoft Says 2.5M Kinect Motion-Sensing Units Sold in First 25 Days on Market * Microsoft Developing a Touchscreen That Lets You Feel Objects * Computer Worm That Hit Iran’s Nuclear Equipme... (Read Full Article)

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Facebook is the Poster Child for Carbon in the Data Center Industry

Explore greenm3.com (Nov 15 2010)

...rs in World, hosted in about 10 colocation sites mainly in Santa Clara and Ashburn, VA. Google and Microsoft have more servers in more locations, but Greenpeace and other environmentalists don't find these companies nearly as interesting. Facebook represents ... (Read Full Article)

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Who's the leader of the pack? The power of green awards. By Peter Judge

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Nov 1 2010)

It must be the time of year for lists of green tech companies. No sooner does Greenpeace publish its Guide to Greener Electronics, than WWF publishes a report on Low Carbon Leadership in t......d how well they are doing on recycling and reducing waste. The leaders are Nokia and Sony Ericsson, Microsoft and Nintendo come bottom, and Apple is, well, just very average.   While other makers increase... (Read Full Article)

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HP, Samsung, Lenovo Rise in ‘Green’ Electronics Ranking, Apple Falls

Explore environmentalleader.com (Oct 27 2010)

While HP, Samsung and Lenovo made the biggest strides in developing ‘green’ products, Toshiba and Microsoft failed to act on past promises, according to the latest update of the Greenpeace Guide to Greener Electronics. Nokia, Sony Ericsson and Philips held on to their No. 1, 2 and 3 r... (Read Full Article)

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Yahoo’s New Facility Shows Trend, Growing Importance of Green Data Centers

Explore The New York Times (Sep 20 2010) Wind , Cloud Computing , Servers , Storage

...: data storage center, energy efficiency Companies: accenture, Amazon, DOE, EPA, Facebook, Google, Greenpeace, Microsoft, nokia, Power Assure, Yahoo Yahoo’s New Facility Shows Trend, Growing Importance of Green Data Cent... (Read Full Article)

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Greenpeace Scales Dell Headquarters, Releases Greener Electronics Guide

Explore environmentalleader.com (May 27 2010)

After releasing its latest Guide to Greener Electronics rankings, Greenpeace launched a campaign against computer giant Dell for backtracking on its public commitment to elimin......Ericsson, Philips, Motorola and Apple, while the bottom five ranked companies are Toshiba, Fujitsu, Microsoft, Lenovo, and Nintendo. Reader Comments There are no comments for this story. ______________________... (Read Full Article)

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States Use Tax Incentives to Lure In Data Centers

Explore GreenBiz.com (May 5 2010) Cloud Computing , Servers

...state. As Tax-News.com reports: Last year, the state rejected a proposed tax break, which prompted Microsoft to move its cloud computing platform Azure out of Washington State to another data center in the US...... plenty of incentive for data center owners to be as efficient as possible. But as the Facebook vs. Greenpeace kerfluffle pointed out, non-green data centers can be a bit of black eye, depending on who ... (Read Full Article)

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Green:Net 2010

Explore TreeHugger (Apr 30 2010) Carbon Footprint

Greenpeace is all about making companies who talk the talk actually walk the walk, especially when it comes to...... Following up behind Cisco was Ericsson with a score of 53, IBM with 42, and HP with 41. Google and Microsoft - who had a panel at Green:Net discussing how they're moving into home energy management, and who a... (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......p IT leaders are Cisco (62 points), Ericsson (53), IBM (42), HP (41), Fujitsu (36), Google (33) and Microsoft (31). Cisco doubled its score from the previous report by demonstrating the benefits of its gre... (Read Full Article)

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Data Center Greenwashing? Time Will Tell If It Was

Explore Relocate (Apr 29 2010) Carbon Footprint , Emissions , Fossil Fuel , Geothermal , Cloud Computing

...ncover deceitful messaging or contradictory efforts in an organization's environmental stance. Greenpeace recently released a controversial report criticizing a number of companies for potential conflictin......et its corporate carbon reduction goals, data centers certainly being a chief priority. Last year, Microsoft built its first mega data center outside the US aimed at making better use of environmental resourc... (Read Full Article)

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