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Explore The New York Times (May 21 2012) Fuel Cell , Cloud Computing

...innovation emerging from the ground up, but from seeing the new tools coming on stream that are, as Amazon.com’s founder, Jeff Bezos, put it to me, “eliminating all the gatekeepers” — making it easier and cheap......ng from below, and then making sure people execute them. The leading companies driving this trend — Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, Google, Apple, LinkedIn, Zynga and Twitter — are all headquartered and listed in America. Facebook... (Read Full Article)

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Apple's iCloud Data Center to Use Only Green Power

Explore eweek.com (May 19 2012) Construction , Fuel Cell , Geothermal , Solar

...ly compute-dense facilities. More recently has been the rise of companies like Google, Facebook and Amazon—as well as the expanding businesses of established vendors like Apple and Microsoft—which are building massive data centers to power their Web-based businesses. Like most enterprises,... (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 attention to the companies’ use of GHG intensive fuels in powering their data cen... (Read Full Article)

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Microsoft gets earth-friendly, goes carbon neutral

Explore Technology News (May 9 2012) Construction , Fossil Fuel , Cloud Computing

...able energy and carbon offsets," Turner said. Leading tech companies, like Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Microsoft, use massive amounts of energy, electricity and power. Greenpeace estimates that some individual ... (Read Full Article)

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Amazon Adds New Tools to Cloud for Windows Developers

Explore Web Host Industry Review (May 9 2012) Cloud Computing , Servers

...month after AWS launched AWS Marketplace for customer to deploy software and services in one-click. Amazon chief technology officer Werner Vogels says in a blog post that the new features illustrates its co...... this year.  On Monday, web hosting provider Infinitely Virtual  launched a hosted product based on Microsoft’s SQL Server 2012. There are four different SQL Server Editions: Express, Web, Standard and Enterpr... (Read Full Article)

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European Data Center Association to Launch at Data Centers Europe 2012

Explore Web Host Industry Review (May 8 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing

...n, Hitachi, Caterpillar, Joyent, Siemens and Scottish Development International and is supported by Microsoft, The Green Grid, eco, Data Center Pulse and the European Data Centre Association. The event include......Fill out our WHIR reader survey to let us know what works and what doesn’t. And enter to win a $100 Amazon gift card. (Read Full Article)

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Greenpeace questions the green in clouds

Explore ITworld (May 1 2012) Construction , Fuel Cell , Solar

...he Clean Energy Index was a paltry 15.3 percent (for the record, others had lower scores, including Amazon, IBM, Oracle, Microsoft, and Salesforce.com), but had the highest usage of coal at 55.1 percent. Apple got a D for energy t... (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

...eace report include: * Three of the largest IT companies building their business around the cloud – Amazon, Apple and Microsoft – are all rapidly expanding without adequate regard to source of electricity, and rely heavily on d... (Read Full Article)

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Greenpeace Pranks Apple at Flagship Stores, Calls for an End to the Coal-Powered Cloud

Explore TreeHugger (Apr 24 2012) Power and Cooling , Fossil Fuel , Fuel Cell

...ing themselves. "I'm excited about the possibilities of this campaign, moving big corporations like Amazon, Apple and Microsoft to be champions of clean energy," Joe Smyth, a volunteer activist, told me. Greenpeace is setting i... (Read Full Article)

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Apple Responds To Greenpeace Criticism

Explore TechWeekEurope UK (Apr 24 2012) Construction , Fossil Fuel , Fuel Cell

Apple has decided not to remain silent after Greenpeace criticised it, along with Amazon and Microsoft, in a mid-April “How Clean Is Your Cloud?” report, which claimed all three heavily relied on “dirty... (Read Full Article)

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Apple and Greenpeace in War of Words over Dirty Clouds

Explore Datamation (Apr 20 2012) Construction , Power and Cooling , Fossil Fuel , Fuel Cell , Cloud Computing

...nter build in Prineville, Ore., Greenpeace has zeroed in on clean energy's boogeyman, coal. "Apple, Amazon and Microsoft are powering their growing 21st-century clouds with dirty, 19th-century coal energy," writes Greenp... (Read Full Article)

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Letter to Ballmer, Bezos, Cook: Go to Iceland

Explore SmartPlanet (Apr 20 2012)

Dear Steve Ballmer, Jeff Bezos and Tim Cook - As CEOs of Microsoft, Amazon and Apple, you’re probably aware that the environmental group Greenpeace this week branded each of ... (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

...PDT Follow @mlamonica Greenpeace makes a splash in Seattle by hanging this sign off a building near Microsoft and Amazon offices. Greenpeace makes a splash in Seattle by hanging this sign off a building near Microsoft and Amazon offices. (Credit: Greenpeace) Commentary In its trademark smashmouth style, Greenpeace this week to... (Read Full Article)

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Greenpeace Gives Apple a Valuable Lesson in Stakeholder Engagement

Explore Triple Pundit (Apr 20 2012) Construction , Fuel Cell

...reenpeace’s report How Clean is Your Cloud, which was released earlier this week, focused on Apple, Amazon and Microsoft, which all scored badly for relying on coal and nuclear power for their data centers. For Apple, th... (Read Full Article)

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Cloud's dirty laundry to be aired by Greenpeace

Explore crn.com.au (Apr 18 2012) Construction , Emissions , Fossil Fuel , Fuel Cell

...e powered. Australia is not mentioned in the report. How service providers fare The report looks at Amazon Web Services, Apple, Dell, Facebook, Google, HP, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Rackspace, Salesforce, Akamai, Twitter and Yahoo. Google ranked high in Greenpeace’s overv... (Read Full Article)

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Apple Defends Its Data Centers Against Greenpeace Report

Explore redorbit.com (Apr 18 2012) Construction , Carbon Footprint , Cloud Computing

...ce has issued a report of 14 companies leading the transition from local to cloud computing. Apple, Amazon, and Microsoft all received failing grades for their use of coal to power their data centers. When Apple first ann... (Read Full Article)

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Web Host TurnKey Internet to Open Green Data Center in New York State

Explore Web Host Industry Review (Apr 18 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing

...o increase. Earlier this week, Greenpeace published its “How Green is Your Cloud” report, which saw Amazon and Facebook receive low ratings. In addition to the new data center, Turnkey also recently install......red Missouri-based Internet service provider KCNet. Then just last month, TurnKey added support for Microsoft’s WebMatrix website building software. Talk Back: Are you currently using a data center powered by ... (Read Full Article)

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Apple contests Greenpeace's coal-fired data center claims

Explore macworld.com (Apr 18 2012) Construction , Power and Cooling , Carbon Footprint , Fossil Fuel , Fuel Cell

... high marks for being more transparent about its energy use and committing to use renewable energy. Amazon and Microsoft however received low marks from Greenpeace, which said both “rely heavily on dirty energy to power ... (Read Full Article)

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Greenpeace protesters target Apple's Ireland HQ

Explore Macworld UK (Apr 18 2012) Power and Cooling , Fossil Fuel , Fuel Cell

...w Clean is your Cloud report. Greenpeace launched the report earlier this week, singling out Apple, Amazon and Microsoft for criticism over electricity consumption by the data centres used by the tech giants. Apple has a... (Read Full Article)

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Amazon Receives Failing Grade in Greenpeace “How Green is Your Cloud” Report

Explore Web Host Industry Review (Apr 18 2012) Construction , Fossil Fuel , Cloud Computing

...f green technologies. “Three of the largest IT companies building their business around the cloud — Amazon, Apple and Microsoft — are all rapidly expanding without adequate regard to source of electricity, and rely heavily on d... (Read Full Article)

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Greenpeace slams Amazon over green datacentre efforts

Explore ZDNet UK (Apr 18 2012) Construction , Power and Cooling , Carbon Footprint , Fuel Cell , Solar , Cloud Computing

In the How green is your cloud report, published on Tuesday, Greenpeace slammed Apple, Amazon and Microsoft for the meagre amount of clean energy their datacentres use and their "transparency" regarding thei... (Read Full Article)

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Salesforce Worst of ‘Dirty’ Cloud Companies, Greenpeace says

Explore environmentalleader.com (Apr 18 2012) Construction , Carbon Footprint , Fossil Fuel , Cloud Computing

...in 2011 to 15.3 percent in 2012. Apple now has the fifth-lowest score in the report. It leapfrogged Microsoft, IBM and Amazon. Home » Salesforce Worst of ‘Dirty’ Cloud Companies, Greenpeace says April 18, 2012 Salesforce Wors... (Read Full Article)

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Greenpeace sticks to its guns over iCloud report

Explore TG Daily (Apr 18 2012) Construction

... - also bears out this interpretation, says Greenpeace. The group's report also criticized Twitter, Amazon and Microsoft. However, it praised Google, Yahoo and Facebook - previously one of its biggest targets - for movin... (Read Full Article)

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Greenpeace Gives Apple, Amazon Low Marks for 'Dirty' Clouds

Explore pcmag.com (Apr 17 2012) Construction , Carbon Footprint , Fossil Fuel , Fuel Cell , Cloud Computing

...r lagging behind their Web counterparts. The firms, however, took issue with that characterization. Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft "are all rapidly expanding without adequate regard to source of electricity, and rely heavily on di... (Read Full Article)

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