The Facebook Fallacy

Explore Technology Review (May 22 2012)

...siness. (Here's the heartbreaking truth about the difference between new media and old: even in the New York Times' declining traditional business, a subscriber is still worth more than $1,000 a year.) Facebook's business only grows on the unsustainable basis that it can add new customers at a faster rate tha... (Read Full Article)

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How Clean is your Cloud - Apple responds

Explore Greenpeace (Apr 17 2012) Construction , Fuel Cell , Solar , Cloud Computing

...ount and type of power behind the Internet services we use everyday. Today Apple responded (via the New York Times): In a statement issued in response to the report, Apple disclosed for the first time that the data......solution to old-fashioned problems like emissions from coal. Some companies, like Google, Yahoo and Facebook are already doing that, by taking steps to move toward powering their clouds with clean energy, not... (Read Full Article)

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Facebook joins the Arctic crowd

Explore money.cnn.com (Oct 28 2011)

...abundant cold air to cool their servers, cutting expensive air-conditioning out of the equation. Facebook, the latest tech company to take the polar plunge, announced this week that it will build a data ce......or about 1.3% of the world's electricity use in 2010, according to a recent study conducted for the New York Times by Jon Koomey, a consulting professor at Stanford's Department of Civil and ... (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

...ly, 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 to be a great......ctricity used by Google during a year is enough to power 200,000 homes, according to this report in New York Times.. Breaking its energy usage down further, the company also said: To provide you with Google ... (Read Full Article)

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Report: Data Center Energy Use is Moderating

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

...S,” Koomey writes. The report, “Growth in Data Center Power Use 2005 to 2010,” was prepared for the New York Times, which summarizes the findings. The full report is available via Koomey’s web site. The moderating ......ey tracks a time of dynamic growth for the data center industry, in which Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Facebook and Apple all built enormous cloud data centers, while service providers filled space at wholesale ... (Read Full Article)

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Morning Tech Wrap: Microsoft, Skype, Google

Explore Forbes.com Blogs (May 10 2011)

... to unveil a new music storage and streaming service at its annual developers conference today. The New York Times reports the new cloud-based music player service, called Music Beta by Google, doesn’t have the sup......ver 102 million registered members and has carved its niche as a site to make business connections. Facebook, the social networking site with around 600 million members, would cause “pandemonium” if it ever w... (Read Full Article)

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Facebook Heads Back East With a Relatively Green Data Center in North Carolina

Explore The New York Times (Nov 11 2010) Cloud Computing , Servers

...r should take around 18 months to build and will generate 250 jobs during the construction process. Facebook will then hire between 35 and 45 people to run the beast. Facebook will get around $17 million in tax breaks as a result, according to a report by the New York Times. Facebook’s new data center will also have to meet some pretty strict environmental standards that North... (Read Full Article)

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Green servers in growing markets will lead to more power consumption - by Doug Mohney

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Sep 30 2010)

...o deploy a small to mid-sized data center.   If you're not building a "mega-center" on the scale of Facebook, Google, Yahoo or Microsoft, you can easily tuck away a data center into a closet or a small office...... applications including telecommunications, banking, health care, transportation and energy, says a New York Times blog.  With mobile phones driving commerce, there's a big need for backend servers to handle transa... (Read Full Article)

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Carbon reduction through social pressure works -- occasionally - by Doug Mohney

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Aug 17 2010)

...Greenpeace and other environmental organizations. Greenpeace has made a lot of fuss about flogging Facebook's data centers and their use of coal-burning power, racking up nearly 500,000 followers so far on ... (Read Full Article)

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Gov 2.0 Week in Review - Closing the IT gap, looking back at PDF, considering cloud computing and looking ahead to DC ...

Explore O'Reilly Radar (Jun 14 2010) Cloud Computing

...sident for Energy and Climate Change, also took questions on the oil spill in a live Web chat using Facebook and WhiteHouse.gov. The archived video is embedded below: Here in the District of Columbia, Digital......ov. Mike Bloomberg has earned some plaudit as an "iPad Mayor." As Javier Hernandez reported for the New York Times, while Bloomberg is still mastering the device, his deputy mayor for operations, Stephen Goldsmith,... (Read Full Article)

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