Looking forward: energy efficiency from the computer to the cloud

Explore Scientific American Blog Network (Oct 16 2011) Cloud Computing

...______________________ ____________________________________________________________ Send Last month MIT’s Technology Review reported on a new development that the energy efficiency of computers doubles r......consumers increasingly relying on data centers for many services (Netflix streaming, Apple iCloud, Facebook, Google search, etc.), how important is energy efficiency in a data center, and have there been any... (Read Full Article)

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Facebook Turns to A Little Solar For Its Data Center

Explore GigaOM (Apr 17 2011) Solar

Facebook Turns to A Little Solar For Its Data CenterGigaOmAt Green:Net Google and Yahoo will discuss their g......rison’s sake (these aren’t apples to apples, but just to give you an indicator) according to a 2009 MIT study, 16,000 servers used by eBay are thought to use 60,000 MWh per year. Forty thousand servers u... (Read Full Article)

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GE Completes Lineage Power Deal

Explore peHUB (Mar 2 2011) Cloud Computing

...inv... I’ve been thinking for a while now that there will not be one social graph to rule them all (Facebook) but that we will eventually have a multitude of web/mobile services in our lives, each with a soci...... phone address book may well be the answer. Gary Halliwell was joined in constructing this piece by MIT associate professor of comparative media studies Ian Condry. The proposed “do ... (Read Full Article)

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