Google Agrees to Allow Owners of Wi-Fi Routers to Opt Out of Database

Explore The New York Times (Nov 15 2011)

Google, under pressure from privacy regulators in the Netherlands, said Tuesday that it had agreed to give people around the world the option of keeping the names an... (Read Full Article)

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Facebook to build server farm: Q&A

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

...stimated in 2005. With its 800m users, Facebook can’t be far behind. Who has the most server farms? Google probably has the most farms, with about 12 different large farms in the US, two in The Netherlands, one in Belgium and one in Finland. How much power do they burn? The world’s servers consumed betwe... (Read Full Article)

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What green really means for colos

Explore DatacenterDynamics (Sep 29 2011) Carbon Footprint , Carbon Tax , Cloud Computing

...years have gained attention because they are considered ‘green’. You only have to look at Facebook, Google and Yahoo!, all of which are using innovative and environmentally friendly cooling, building on bro......nters down the green path. Governments are also focusing more on energy efficiency, not only in the Netherlands but elsewhere around the world. In Amsterdam, for example, if you want to have a data center build approved, you ... (Read Full Article)

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Hacking in Netherlands Points to Weak Spot in Web Security

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In the Netherlands, the daily rhythm of a smooth running European society was disrupted after a computer hacker stole ......h government’s preferred provider of security certificates, DigiNotar, a company in Beverwijk, near Amsterdam, exposed the fragility of the global system of digital authentication that undergirds the Internet.... (Read Full Article)

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Microsoft Signs Cloud Deals With California, New York City

Explore The New York Times (Oct 20 2010) Cloud Computing

...agencies opt for the service. When California vetted the e-mail consolidation contract last summer, Google protested the bidding procedure, claiming the state had rigged the requirements in Microsoft's favo......hat top private sector businesses provide to their employees," he said. (Andreas Udo de Haes of IDG Netherlands contributed to this report.) Joab Jackson covers enterprise software and general technology breakin... (Read Full Article)

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Capgemini pushes efficiency limits in Swindon data center

Explore The Register (Oct 12 2010) Cloud Computing , Servers

...ownfield location in the suburbs of Swindon, boasts an energy efficiency that's as good as anything Google or Yahoo! can put in the field. And Capgemini says it has gone all green and tried to encourage its......data centers in France, the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, China, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, and Switzerland. At this time, the GIO operation has 26,000 servers, of which 8 ... (Read Full Article)

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Wikipedia To Add A U.s. Data Center

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jul 2 2010) Cloud Computing

...cyclopedia Wikipedia, which is among the busiest sites in the world, along with web properties from Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Yahoo. Wikimedia has a primary data center in Tampa, as well as a facility......crosoft, Facebook and Yahoo. Wikimedia has a primary data center in Tampa, as well as a facility in Amsterdam that supports European traffic. The group is reported to have about 300 servers in Tampa and about ... (Read Full Article)

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Wikipedia’s Data Center Overheats

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Mar 25 2010) Power and Cooling , Servers

...donations for additional servers. Wikipedia houses about 50 servers in the EvoSwitch data center in Amsterdam. EvoSwitch is a 100,000 square foot data center supported by 20 megawatts of power capacity that is......re to support its operations. In February the Wikimedia Foundation received a $2 million grant from Google, which it will use to expand its data centers. (Read Full Article)

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Google Gift Means More Servers for Wikipedia

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Feb 18 2010) Cloud Computing , Servers

...uns Wikipedia, houses its entire infrastructure on about 350 servers in data centers in Florida and Amsterdam. The grant from Google, which can spend more than half a billion dollars on a single data center, will help beef up Wikipe... (Read Full Article)

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Underground data center to help heat Helsinki

Explore Technology News (Nov 30 2009) Fossil Fuel , Wind , Cloud Computing , Servers

... account for up to 30 percent of many corporations' energy bills. Data centers such as those run by Google already use around 1 percent of the world's energy, and their demand for power is rising fast with ...... are growing 10 percent a year and now approach levels of entire countries such as Argentina or the Netherlands. Energy savings Besides providing heat to homes in the Finnish capital, the new ... (Read Full Article)

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Greening the Internet: How much CO2 does this article produce?

Explore news.myjoyonline.com (Jul 12 2009) Carbon Footprint , Emissions , Cloud Computing

...e to be able to receive your search, process it and then send it back to you," Erik Teetzel, one of Google's "green" engineers, told CNN. "If people are counting things outside the activity that we do, then......tes and then purchase renewable energy certificates based on their sites' monthly carbon footprint. Netherlands-based Cleanbits lobbies web sites to go green by either by purchasing carbon offsets or switching ... (Read Full Article)

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Amazon Adds Cloud Data Center in Virginia

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jun 23 2009) Construction

...J.), Palo Alto, Seattle and St. Louis. The company also has international data center operations in Amsterdam, Dublin, Frankfurt, London, Hong Kong and Tokyo. Amazon revealed those locations as part of its Clo......edly planning a large data center in Boardman, Oregon near the banks of the Columbia River, joining Google in harnessing the region’s cheap energy resources to power huge cloud computing data centers. The e... (Read Full Article)

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