The Facebook Fallacy

Explore Technology Review (May 22 2012)

...ill have to be something like alchemy to make the company worth its sticker price. (For comparison, Google trades at a P/E ratio of 12). The company currently derives 82 percent of its revenue from advertis...... per customer per year, which puts it somewhat ahead of the Huffington Post and somewhat behind the New York Times' digital business. (Here's the heartbreaking truth about the difference between new media ... (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...... be a part of the 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 ... (Read Full Article)

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Facebook joins the Arctic crowd

Explore money.cnn.com (Oct 28 2011)

...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 Environmental Engineeri......d. Facebook's Swedish data center will have company from other tech giants in Scandinavia. In 2009, Google ( , Fortune 500) bought a defunct paper mill in Hamina, Finland, and converted it into ... (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

...carbon offsets, we bring our carbon impact to zero. To put that in context: the electricity 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 products for a month -- not just search, but Google+, Gmail, YouTube and everything else we have to offer ... (Read Full Article)

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Google Data Centers Consume 50 Percent Less Energy than Average Report

Explore Web Host Industry Review (Sep 9 2011) Carbon Footprint

...me 50 percent less energy than the industry average, according to a new study released this week by Google. According to a report by the New York Times, the typical Google user consumes 180 watt-hours a month of energy, or the equivalent of running a 60-watt light bulb f... (Read Full Article)

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Google Data Centers Use More Power than Salt Lake City

Explore environmentalleader.com (Sep 9 2011) Carbon Footprint , Solar , Cloud Computing

...w quickly it was outstripping the competition in the scale and efficiency of its data centers,” the New York Times said. But Google’s competitors no longer see electricity figures as a key to decoding the company’s operations, sen... (Read Full Article)

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What does Economic Uncertainty Mean for Hosting?

Explore thehostingnews.com (Aug 5 2011) Cloud Computing

...hosting industry responding to all the news? One has to look no further than a recent report by the New York Times examining a study showing that power at data centers has been recorded as less than expected over a......me, it’ll be interesting to watch new ways data centers seek to become more efficient, whether it’s Google’s use of cooling from the Baltic Sea or a ... (Read Full Article)

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Report: Google Uses About 900,000 Servers

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

Have Google watchers been overestimating the number of servers in the company's data center network? Recent gue...... these sites. Koomey’s report, “Growth in Data Center Power Use 2005 to 2010,” was prepared for the New York Times, which summarizes the findings this morning. (Read Full Article)

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Report: Data Center Energy Use is Moderating

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

...E) assumption will need to be revisited as cloud computing becomes more widely used,” he wrote. The New York Times has been investigating data center energy use since early 2010, with a particular focus on Google’s data centers. “Data centers’ unquenchable thirst for electricity has been slaked by the global re... (Read Full Article)

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For the energy of the Internet, look to the end devices

Explore GigaOM (Jun 27 2011) Carbon Footprint , Emissions , Networking

...uld one day change. Turns out set top boxes are one of the more egregious power hogs out there. The New York Times details in a weekend story that the 160 million set top boxes delivering entertainment to American ......t of that energy is basically wasted, and consumed when no one is watching, or recording, shows. At Google’s second annual data center energy summit in May, Google’s senior ... (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 support of big music labels, which will lead to restrictions on users sharing son... (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)

... 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 or a fl...... 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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A Chip Start-Up Aims to Slay Intel

Explore dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com (Aug 16 2010)

... United Arab Emirates, has formed in a bid to disrupt one of Intel’s most lucrative franchises, The New York Times’s Ashlee Vance reported Monday. The companies have put $48 million into Smooth-Stone, a start-up......mine Intel’s server-chip business and offer companies, especially those with vast data centers like Google, Amazon.com, Facebook and Microsoft, enormous energy cost savings. Acknowledging the David vs. G... (Read Full Article)

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In the New Data Center, It’s Roofs Off and Taxes Down

Explore Technology (Aug 17 2009) Construction , Power and Cooling

Google and Microsoft continue to spar over both their data center designs and how much information they re... (Read Full Article)

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Ibm & Cloud Computing: The Big Blue Cloud - A Summary

Explore Linux (Jun 17 2009) Cloud Computing

... can do for you. Or simply, it's about the application, duh? In a statement earlier today in the New York Times, IBM CEO Sam Palmisano said, “The information technology infrastructure is under stress --- and the......g is bad, just nothing new. This is in direct contrast to IBM's rivals such as Amazon Web Services, Google and even Microsoft who have managed to create a totally new and integrated ... (Read Full Article)

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