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    2. Apple hires Yahoo’s data center chief

      Explore GigaOM (Oct 22 2011) Cloud Computing

      Apple hires Yahoo’s data center chief Scott Noteboom, the man who has been in charge of Yahoo’s data center operations since 2005, has now joined Apple as the iconic consumer electronics maker expands into the cloud. This follows Apple's hiring of Microsoft data center guru Kevin Timmons a few months back. (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Apple   Yahoo   Kevin Timmons

    3. Does Greenpeace Hate the Internet?

      Explore Greenpeace (Apr 27 2011) Emissions , Cloud Computing

      Does Greenpeace Hate the Internet? No, obviously we do not. But that was an assumption made last week by some bloggers who covered our report, How Dirty Is Your Data?, which called out a number of top cloud computing companies that have fast-growing electricity needs for their lack of transparency and bad energy choices. The report also cites the positive contributions of the cloud and lists recommendations for how IT companies can green their act. (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Greenpeace   Greenpeace International   Yahoo !

    4. More Green than you can shake a stick at by Doug Moheny

      Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Apr 11 2011)

      More Green than you can shake a stick at by Doug Moheny --> In a couple of weeks it will be Earth Day, but there's no shortage of Green Data Center events this month.  I suppose it would be asking too much to move some events to March so they could pick up St. Patrick's Day as well. "Brainstorm GREEN," an event organized by Fortune magazine and organized with The Nature Conservancy, NRDC, and the Environmental Defense Fund took place this ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Greenpeace   Google   Yahoo

    5. Yahoo!'s New Lockport, New York Data Center Provides Jobs in a Depressed Area

      Explore Associated Content (Sep 20 2010)

      Yahoo!'s New Lockport, New York Data Center Provides Jobs in a Depressed Area Yahoo Inc. has just opened a new data center in Lockport, New York. It is the company's first use of a new environmentally friendly design that relies in large part on western New York's cooler climate. It makes use of the prevailing winds from Lake Ontario and low-cost hydropower from the New York Power Authority to keep the 120-foot by 60-foot server buildings cool. That significantly reduces its ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory   Department of Energy   Yahoo !

    6. Hewlett-Packard, Verizon Wireless and the US House of Representatives Among ...

      Explore earthtimes.org (Apr 15 2010) Cloud Computing

      Hewlett-Packard, Verizon Wireless and the US House of Representatives Among ... The Uptime Institute today announced the finalists for this year’s annual Green Enterprise IT (GEIT) Awards. The GEIT Awards showcase organizations that are pioneering energy-efficiency improvements in their IT and data center operations, or that provide technology that can significantly reduce energy consumption. The winners will be presented at the fifth annual Uptime Institute Symposium, May 17-19 in New York, NY. (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Hewlett Packard   Uptime Institute   Yahoo !

    7. Carnegie Mellon University data center to host Open Cirrus HPC cluster

      Explore DatacenterDynamics (Feb 23 2010) Cloud Computing

      Carnegie Mellon University data center to host Open Cirrus HPC cluster The research data center at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science will host one of the series of computing clusters around the world that comprise Open Cirrus, a test bed for cloud computing research created by HP, Intel and Yahoo! This is the second Open Cirrus cluster the university’s scientists will have had access to. The Carnegie Mellon site, hosted within the university’s Data Center Observatory ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Europe   Intel   Yahoo

    8. Energy Efficiency Gains Horsepower: The State of Green Business 2010

      Explore greenercomputing.com (Feb 9 2010) Carbon Footprint , Emissions , Servers

      Energy Efficiency Gains Horsepower: The State of Green Business 2010 As managing greenhouse gas emissions continues to rise in priority inside companies, the need to find large, cost-effective energy savings is becoming increasingly important. Some of the biggest opportunities come from basic upgrades — of lighting, air conditioning, equipment, vehicles and other energy-using things. Coca-Cola Enterprises, for example, said it would slash its electricity consumption by 5.6 million kilowatt-hours a year as a result of an energy-efficiency overhaul of just ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Yahoo !

    9. From Site Selection magazine, November 2009

      Explore Site Selection Online (Nov 24 2009) Construction , Power and Cooling , Carbon Footprint

      From Site Selection magazine, November 2009 Site SelectionFrom Site Selection magazine, November 2009Site Selections director of climate and energy strategy, says the free cooling aspect and the availability of hydroelectric power gave Lockport an edge. ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Yahoo   Yahoo !   New York Power Authority

    10. Falling for hydro all over again by carol wilson

      Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Jul 27 2009) Power and Cooling , Hydro

      Falling for hydro all over again by carol wilson You can’t deny there’s a romantic ring to the idea that Niagara Falls will power Yahoo!’s next data center, being built in Lockport, N.Y. And while this is a recent development, hydroelectric power was the first renewable source of energy sought by those building data centers. The reasons are obvious – there’s nothing uncertain about hydroelectric power – its costs and benefits are well established, as is ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Google   Yahoo   The Green Grid

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