Microsoft Commits to Carbon Neutrality in FY 2013

Explore environmentalleader.com (May 8 2012) Construction , Carbon Footprint

...ase its purchase of renewable energy and reduce waste and water use. The company ranks third on the EPA’s list of organizations using the most green power. The carbon fee is a key component of Microsoft’s “be accountable” pillar. Additionally, Microsoft is working with CarbonSystems to implement an Enterprise Sustainability Platform, which automatical... (Read Full Article)

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Green Data Centers: Is It Worth Running a “Losing” Race?

Explore Triple Pundit (Apr 26 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing

...ely held up the world’s largest IT companies and data center operators, including Apple, Google and Microsoft, for public applause or chastisement based on their energy usage, energy policies and environmental......ng community away from dirty sources of electricity. Taking a “glass is half-full” perspective, the EPA recently released its list of Top 50 “green-powered” organizations that are leaders when it comes t... (Read Full Article)

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Microsoft Debuts on EPA Green Power List, Ranking Third

Explore environmentalleader.com (Apr 24 2012) Construction , Carbon Footprint , Emissions

Microsoft has ranked third in the EPA’s list of organizations using the most green power, and along with McDonald’s, appears on the list ... (Read Full Article)

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Greenpeace's clean cloud push: Hey, they've got a point

Explore Technology News (Apr 20 2012) Construction , Carbon Footprint , Fossil Fuel , Fuel Cell , Wind , Cloud Computing

...policy, which is largely set at the state level and, in the absence of a national energy policy, by EPA regulations on coal power plants. Almost half of all electricity in the U.S. comes from coal, wh......eenpeace) As such, data centers can and should be efficient. Leading companies -- Facebook, Google, Microsoft, etc. -- have done a lot of innovation over the past few years and spent lots of money ... (Read Full Article)

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A New Net

Explore Technology Review (Feb 6 2012) Cloud Computing , Networking

...ed decades earlier and was proving unsuited to an era of cyberwarfare. Casado, then a researcher at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, had been approached by a U.S. intelligence agency with a thorny problem. Computer networking techn......f the early 1980s. IBM's PC standard separated hardware and software, making operating systems like Microsoft Windows the focus of innovation while hardware became a race-to-the-bottom commodity. Cisco and oth... (Read Full Article)

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Facebook funds UT Arlington to discover energy efficiencies for computer centers

Explore Press Release & News Distribution (Nov 8 2011)

...al Science Foundation project related to keeping massive data centers more energy efficient. The Environmental Protection Agency has reported that the energy used in 2006 by the data center industry was 1.5 percent of the total ......one of 15 companies signed up to be consortium members. Others firms include data heavyweights like Microsoft, General Electric, Commscope, Bloomberg, General Electric, Corning Inc., Endicott Interconnect Tech... (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

...onmental task force. She says company officials are working with environmental leaders, such as the Environmental Protection Agency and the Rainforest Alliance, to learn best practices. Harrington says additional IT efforts to redu......s and Price 10 questions for CDW CFO Ann E. Ziegler TapSense Touchscreens Know How You Touched Them Microsoft's YouTube channel gets hijacked and wiped clean Steve Jobs bio debuts at No. 1 spot on bestseller ... (Read Full Article)

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Vantage Expands With Project in Quincy

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Sep 27 2011) Construction , Hydro

... Quincy, a major data center hub in central Washington state that is already home to facilities for Microsoft, Yahoo and Intuit, with Sabey and Dell also building new data centers. * Vantage Expands With Pro...... ‘Tier 4′ Generators Vantage said it planned to equip the new facility with generators meeting the EPA’s Tier 4 standard, which is designed to reduce hazardous emissions from backup generators. Most dat... (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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Report: Data Center Energy Use is Moderating

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

...ements anticipated in the report to Congress,” writes Koomey, whose 2007 report to Congress and the Environmental Protection Agency has framed most subsequent discussions of data center energy usage. Koomey says companies have been......of between 1.83 and 1.92, based on estimates of the average PUE reported in recent samplings by the EPA Energy Star Program and the Uptime Institute. While some cloud computing data centers have PUEs ... (Read Full Article)

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Data Centers’ Power Use Less Than Was Expected

Explore The New York Times (Jul 31 2011) Cloud Computing , Servers

...rvers to run more programs. The slowing of growth in consumption contradicts a 2007 forecast by the Environmental Protection Agency that the explosive expansion of the Internet and the computerization of society would lead to a d......ercial data centers and in the large data farms operated by companies like Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft and Facebook, there has been an increasing discussion about the growing percentage of the nation’s... (Read Full Article)

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Uptime Institute: The Average PUE is 1.8

Explore Data Center Knowledge (May 10 2011)

...rs, has previously said that the average PUE was around 2.5. Others cite an average of 2.0, and the EPA’s Energy Star program reported a 1.91 average PUE in 2009 data it collected more than 100 data cent......ng how much is lost in distribution and conversion. Large users such as Google, Yahoo, Facebook and Microsoft have reported industry-leading ratings in the 1.07 to 1 ... (Read Full Article)

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Facts and Figures Behind Greenpeace’s Green Data Center Report

Explore GigaOM (Apr 26 2011) Monitoring

... 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...... Paradox in action. But the only solid evidence the report cites in that section comes from a 2007 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency report (PDF) that finds increasing IT efficiency will flatten or reduce ... (Read Full Article)

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Corporate America Embraces The Green Data Server

Explore cnbc.com (Apr 21 2011)

...over 3,600 data centers — exploding demand from all kinds of businesses has become a challenge. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates data-center energy usage doubled from the dotcom boom days of 2000 to 2006 and will doubl......age doubled from the dotcom boom days of 2000 to 2006 and will double again by the end of 2011. The EPA says U.S. server farms used the same amount ... (Read Full Article)

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How Big is the Data Center Construction Market?

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Mar 16 2011) Cloud Computing

...t for data center construction? How much is it going to grow? Industry veteran Christian Belady of Microsoft has done an analysis, and projects that annual global spending on data center construction will inc......oomey, Uptime Data Cited Belady based his projections on data from Jonathan Koomey of Stanford, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and The Uptime Institute. Koomey has done landmark research on energy use by data centers ... (Read Full Article)

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Energy Efficiency Guide: Data Center Temperature

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Mar 10 2011) Carbon Footprint , Cloud Computing , Servers

...Even a data center user in the Middle East and eBay in Phoenix go without chillers. Both Google and Microsoft operate facilities without chillers, using fresh air cooling. Guest columnists at Data Center Knowl......ngs compared to the test results,” said the report on the Clustered Systems technology, prepared by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Some are deliberately pushing cooling water temperature even further. IBM deployed a supercomputer... (Read Full Article)

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Does it matter what sort of electricity powers your data center?

Explore zdnet.com (Mar 9 2011) Cloud Computing

...egy has helped Datapipe become one of select number of IT companies nationwide that are part of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Green Power Leadership Club. That designation is used to recognize companies that have gone above......nload Now How-to Guide: Consolidating multiple SQL Server systems onto Dell PowerEdge Servers using Microsoft's Hyper-VThis guide provides concepts and procedures that will help you ... (Dell)Download Now A Pe... (Read Full Article)

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Data Center Sustainability Takes Center Stage at The Green Grid's Annual ...

Explore Home | SYS-CON MEDIA (Mar 2 2011) Cloud Computing , Servers

...mentally changed the way we work, communicate, and live in the global economy,” said Rob Bernard, Microsoft representative and Board member of The Green Grid. “Organizations of all sizes have the opportuni......s include the U.S. Department of Energy’s Save Energy Now and Federal Energy Management Programs, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s ENERGY STAR Program, European Commission Joint Research Center Code of Conduct, Japanâ ... (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......ergy use could nearly double by 2011, costing $7.4 billion a year. It’s enough of an issue that the EPA’s ... (Read Full Article)

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Virtualization to supercharge new tablets, smart phones

Explore ITWorld Canada (Sep 29 2010) Cloud Computing

... computers with the (capability) of today's PCs," Forth said. By: Rafael Ruffolo (16 Sep 2010)While Microsoft Corp.’s new Internet Explorer 9 release is receiving positive reviews for its faster performance and str... (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

...iciency measures. Tags: 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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Data center build-out guru Mike Manos: Five data center game changers

Explore Data Center (Jun 1 2010) Power and Cooling , Cap and Trade

..., has had a major impact on the data center industry. As general manager of data center services at Microsoft, Manos oversaw Redmond's infrastructure ramp-up to compete with Google and pushed adoption of conta......rastructure protocol, but as you blend into IT, that equipment doesn't speak the same language. The EPA publishes a current emissions factor for every region across the U.S. and takes into account how mu... (Read Full Article)

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5 Questions Facing Carbon Software Players

Explore Earth2Tech (Apr 28 2010) Monitoring , Carbon Footprint , Emissions

...andful of companies such as Enviance, IHS and ProcessMAP — names not as well known as the SAP’s and Microsoft’s of the world, but with a growing interest in challenging the enterprise giants and startups alike......istry and physics of greenhouse gas,” he said. While the US market lacks carbon cap-and-trade, the EPA is seeking to regulate carbon dioxide emissions under the Clean Air Act, and the Securities and... (Read Full Article)

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Microsoft Joulemeter: Using Software to Green the Data Center

Explore GigaOM (Apr 25 2010) Monitoring , Cloud Computing , Servers

...ke to run a virtual machine or specific piece of software? That’s the answer the Joulemeter team at Microsoft Research is hoping to answer for IT managers. Over the years there have been several innovations...... computers. As a whole, the IT industry is one of the fastest-growing energy-consuming sectors. an EPA study published in 2007, data centers in the U.S. consumed about 60 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) in... (Read Full Article)

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