James Hamilton

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 ... (Read Full Article)

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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... (Read Full Article)

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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... (Read Full Article)

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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 ... (Read Full Article)

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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... (Read Full Article)

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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... (Read Full Article)

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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,... (Read Full Article)

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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... (Read Full Article)

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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... (Read Full Article)

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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... (Read Full Article)

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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... (Read Full Article)

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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 ... (Read Full Article)

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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... (Read Full Article)

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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... (Read Full Article)

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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... (Read Full Article)

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