Are IT Data Centers Emerging as a 'Killer App' for Green Power? Part 2

Explore Renewable Energy World (May 24 2012) Construction , Fossil Fuel , Fuel Cell , Solar , Wind , Cloud Computing

...(MWh) of power to the data center annually. Other companies deploying solar at data centers include eBay (665 kW), Facebook (100 kW), i/o Data Centers (4.5 MW), McGraw-Hill Companies (14.1 MW), and Qualit...... Microsoft is exploring siting data centers at landfills and wastewater treatment plants.  AT&T and NTT America have also installed fuel cells at their data center facilities. Onsite Wind – Wind is another poten... (Read Full Article)

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Al Gore accused of conflict of interest in Apple’s Bloom Energy deal

Explore DatacenterDynamics (Apr 16 2012)

...t had already made with some big-name clients, including Google, Bank of America, Coca-Cola, FedEx, eBay and Walmart, among others. It announced its first sales for data enter applications in July 2011: NTT America bought Bloom Energy Servers for its San Jose, California, data center, and AT&T bought 7.5MW of fue... (Read Full Article)

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Was the Hype Around Bloom Energy Two Years Ago Justified?

Explore Triple Pundit (Mar 29 2012) Construction , Power and Cooling , Fuel Cell

... Focusing on data center security – Bloom had a very impressive list of customers in 2010 including eBay, Wal-Mart, FedEx, Staples, and Google, which was one of the reasons the company was receiving so mu......of customers, the company, as GigaOm reports, has already sold fuel cells to power data centers for NTT America, the U.S. division of Japanese telecom giant NTT, as well as AT&T. It might be ... (Read Full Article)

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Bloom Energy Sharpens Focus on Data Centers

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Mar 19 2012) Construction , Fuel Cell , Cloud Computing

... Early adopters of Bloom cells include blue-chip companies like Google, Bank of America, Coca-Cola, eBay, FedEx, Staples and Wal-Mart. Lightly Adopted in Data Centers – So Far But traction has been limite...... option of leasing the equipment, reducing the up-front capital requirements. In 2011 both AT&T and NTT announced purchases of Bloom units to support their data centers in California. “By providing a rel... (Read Full Article)

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Nicira Targets the Virtual Data Center Network

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Feb 6 2012) Cloud Computing , Networking

...s many cities or countries. That’s one reason that Nicira made its debut with users including AT&T, eBay, Fidelity Investments, NTT and Rackspace. “Nicira allows us to repurpose network infrastructure on-demand and move application... (Read Full Article)

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A New Net

Explore Technology Review (Feb 6 2012) Cloud Computing , Networking

...re programmable. But Nicira is establishing itself more quickly than other startups. In addition to NTT and Rackspace, its customers include AT&T, Deutsche Telekom, Fidelity Investments, and eBay. And in Casado, Nicira has a figure widely recognized by competitors and colleagues alike as a fier... (Read Full Article)

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NTT America Deploys Bloom Energy Servers

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jul 29 2011) Servers

...eir fuel cell in March 2010 and noted several large customers including Bank of America, Coca-Cola, eBay, FedEx, Staples and Wal-Mart. NTT America is the U.S. subsidiary of NTT Communications Corporation, the global data and IP services arm of NTT Corporation, who is listed #31 on the Fortune Global 500 list. Other energy efficiency initiatives ... (Read Full Article)

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Bloom Energy fuel cells use biogas to help power NTT data center

Explore DatacenterDynamics (Jul 28 2011) Carbon Footprint

...nications, deployed five Bloom Energy Servers with total generation capacity of 500kW. According to NTT, the capacity is enough to power 500 average homes or five 30,000-sq-ft office buildings. NTT America president and CEO Kazuhiro Gomi said the company recognized the importance of energy efficiency and......nd facilities housing network equipment. Other Bloom Energy customers in California include Google, eBay and Adobe, according to a GigaOm report. (Read Full Article)

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Twitter’s New Data Center? C7 Opens New Site

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Oct 27 2010) Cloud Computing , Microblogging

... Matt Graves. Twitter currently manages its infrastructure through a managed hosting agreement with NTT America, which has cited Twitter’s growth as a driver in the expansion of its data center network. The open......ile data center project to locate in the Salt Lake City area in recent years, following the lead of eBay, Oracle Corp. and the NSA. C7 Data Centers CEO Nathan Hatch said companies continue to select ... (Read Full Article)

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Report: Twitter to Partner With C7 in Utah

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jul 23 2010) Cloud Computing , Microblogging

...ile data center project to locate in the Salt Lake City area in recent years, following the lead of eBay, Oracle Corp. and the NSA. Twitter currently manages its infrastructure through a managed hosting a...... and the NSA. Twitter currently manages its infrastructure through a managed hosting agreement with NTT America, which has cited Twitter’s growth as a driver in the expansion of its data center network. In April... (Read Full Article)

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Data Centers: For When The Cloud is Not Enough

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jul 22 2010) Cloud Computing

...r are following the lead of other huge “Internet-scale” companies like Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and eBay, who all build custom data centers to maximize gains in performance and cost. Scaling to Millions o......l Cozzatti echoed that point in announcing the company’s data center plans. Twitter previously used NTT America and Amazon Web Services to its infrastructure. “Importantly, having our own data center will give u... (Read Full Article)

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Twitter Picks Utah for New Data Center

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jul 22 2010) Cloud Computing , Microblogging

...gh-profile technology company to build a major data center in Salt Lake City, following the lead of eBay, Oracle Corp. and the NSA. Twitter will build its first custom data center in the Salt Lake City ...... and the NSA. Twitter currently manages its infrastructure through a managed hosting agreement with NTT America, which has cited Twitter’s growth as a driver in the expansion of its data center network. In ... (Read Full Article)

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Major Data Center Outages of 2009

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Dec 16 2009) Power and Cooling

...restoring service. The attacks continued for weeks as Twitter worked with its data center provider, NTT America, to strengthen its defenses. Amazon Cloud Glitches: One of the top technology trends on Twitter in ......ems on August 3 left Paypal unable to process transactions, a scenario that some estimated cost the eBay business unit as much as $7 million an hour in missed transaction fees. Air New Zealand Travel ‘Cha... (Read Full Article)

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