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- steven burley - (Jan 21 2010) I am looking for advise. I am working with 2 start up companies that are pushing alternative energy and energy efficiency products. I have a product that is added to the refrigerant in a cooloing system. The additive can reduce the systems demand on the energy grid by increasing the efficieny of the system by at least 10% and in most cases far more. I am writing to get exposure ...
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Apple’s NC data center: transparency and the pressure to go green
Explore GigaOM (Apr 24 2012) Construction , Fuel Cell
...e “Apple premium” to a whole new level.’ In fairness to Cook, Amazon’s data center efficiency guru James Hamilton himself estimated that the 500,000 square foot Apple facility would draw 78 megawatts, noting that ...
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Comment Mentions: Apple Greenpeace Amazon.com
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Cloud's dirty laundry to be aired by Greenpeace
Explore crn.com.au (Apr 18 2012) Construction , Emissions , Fossil Fuel , Fuel Cell
...is expected to yield 3.2 Megawatts, according to a recent analysis by Amazon Web Services engineer, James Hamilton, but Apple estimates that fuel cell installations will push green power supply to the facility up t...
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Comment Mentions: Apple Greenpeace Amazon.com
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eBay covers Utah data center roof with solar panels
Explore GigaOM (Apr 11 2012) Construction , Solar , Cloud Computing
...olar panel project at its small data center in Denver. But yes, as Amazon’s web infrastructure guru James Hamilton pointed out recently, these types of solar panel installations at data centers are usually small en...
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Comment Mentions: Amazon.com Data Center Knowledge James Hamilton
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Power Management of Online Data-Intensive Services
Explore Perspectives (Mar 29 2012) Servers
I met Google’s Wolf-Dietrich Weber at the 2009 CIDR conference where he presented what is still one of my favorite datacenter power-related papers. I liked the paper because the gain was large, the authors weren’t confused or distracted by much of what is incorrectly written on datacenter power consumption, and the technique is actually practical. In Power Provisioning for a Warehouse-sized Computer, the authors argue that we should ...
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Comment Mentions: Google James Hamilton
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Another Perspective on Solar at Data Centers
Explore Renewable Energy World (Mar 29 2012) Construction , Solar
...impact of energy-intensive data centers or is it simply an expensive marketing tool? Two weeks ago, James Hamilton of Amazon Web Servi In February, word leaked that Apple will install a 20 megawatt solar farm—the l...
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Comment Mentions: Apple Amazon.com Data Center Knowledge
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Amazon Queries Facebook And Apple’s Solar Plans
Explore TechWeekEurope UK (Mar 27 2012) Construction , Solar
...ve. Amazon Queries Facebook And Apple’s Solar Plans Solar power takes too much space, says Amazon’s James Hamilton On March 27, 2012 by Peter Judge 0 E-commerce and web company Amazon has sparked a controversy by s...
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Amazon IT Guru Questions Facebook, Apple Solar Arrays
Explore environmentalleader.com (Mar 26 2012) Construction , Solar
...hind large solar farms recently installed or proposed by Facebook and Apple. In a recent blog post, James Hamilton writes that he couldn’t ”make the math work” for the completed solar array at Facebook’s Prinevill,...
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Comment Mentions: Amazon.com James Hamilton Facebook
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Solar 'Storm' Hits Data Centers by Peter Judge
Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Mar 25 2012)
... on it heavily to run data centers. Specifically, it was Amazon vice president and data center guru James Hamilton, who said: “I love solar power, but in reflecting carefully on a couple of high profile data center...
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Comment Mentions: Apple Greenpeace Amazon.com
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Not Easy Being Green: Are Solar Farms 'Pure Marketing'?
Explore Wired News (Mar 21 2012) Construction , Solar
...w green the cloud was , or whether green claims were more “greenwashing” than reality. Now Amazon’s James Hamilton is questioning Apple and Facebook’s seemingly easy-being-green data center solar farms. Not Easy Be...
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Comment Mentions: Apple Amazon.com James Hamilton
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Amazon’s cloud rockstar not a fan of solar-powered data centers
Explore GigaOM (Mar 19 2012) Construction , Fossil Fuel , Fuel Cell , Solar
Amazon's web infrastructure rockstar James Hamilton writes on his blog that he's not convinced that solar power is a good fit for powering data centers...
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Is Solar Power for Data Centers a Bad Idea?
Explore Data Center Knowledge (Mar 19 2012) Construction , Solar
...current economics of solar energy and the volume of power required to support a modern data center? James Hamilton of Amazon Web Services, who often presents on data center economics at industry conferences, challe...
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Comment Mentions: Apple Greenpeace Amazon.com
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I Love Solar Power But...
Explore Perspectives (Mar 18 2012) Construction , Solar
Ilove solar power, but in reflecting carefully on a couple of high profile datacenterdeployments of solar power, I’m really developing serious reservations that this isthe path to reducing data center environmental impact. I just can’t make the mathwork and find myself wondering if these large solar farms are really somewhere betweena bad idea and pure marketing, where the environmental impact is purely optical. FacebookPrineville The first of my ...
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Comment Mentions: Apple Greenpeace Data Center Knowledge
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Top 5 Data Center Stories, Week of March 17th
Explore Data Center Knowledge (Mar 17 2012) Construction , Wind , Cloud Computing , Servers
...t + + + A slide of a data center from a presentation at the Amazon Technology Open House. (Source: James Hamilton) For your weekend reading, here’s a recap of five noteworthy stories that appeared on Data Center K...
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Comment Mentions: Amazon.com Google Digital Realty
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Estimate: Amazon Cloud Backed by 450,000 Servers
Explore Data Center Knowledge (Mar 14 2012) Cloud Computing , Servers
...t + + + A slide of a data center from a presentation at the Amazon Technology Open House. (Source: James Hamilton) How many servers does it take to power Amazon’s huge cloud computing operation? Like many large In...
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Comment Mentions: Amazon.com James Hamilton
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Vantage plants energy-efficient data center in the Valley
Explore GigaOM (Feb 15 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing , Servers
... to know they don’t have to run their servers in stone-cold rooms. As Amazon’s data center expert James Hamilton has pointed out, many companies run their data centers much colder than they have to. Turning up th...
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Comment Mentions: Amazon.com Iceland Data Center Knowledge
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