Tag Archives: cloud
Johnson Controls’ Panoptix Building Energy Cloud Platform
We’ve been covering a flurry of technology partnerships on the smart grid-smart buildings front as of late — demand response from Schneider Electric and IPKeys, building energy efficiency from EnerNOC and SCIenergy, and building data analytics from IBM, Honeywell and SkyFoundry among them. Indeed, pretty much every big building controls vendor has a cloud-based platform [...]
Apple to Build 2nd iCloud NC Solar Data Center
Apple has reportedly purchased another 200 acres in North Carolina so that it can build another solar farm to help power its massive iCloud data centre. According to AppleInsider.com, details of the $3 million land deal were released recently. Apple will buy nearly 220 total acres in North Carolina’s Catawba County. There are reports that [...]
How Green is Cloud Computing?
At first glance it might be easy to consider that cloud computing is green. The name evokes nature, for a start, but beyond that one might immediately think to saving paper for print outs (as you can access your data anywhere), or not needing power hungry, constantly on servers in your office to back everything [...]
In Focus: Tendril’s Cloud Platform
Solar panels. Electric vehicles. Wifi thermostats. Home security and energy management systems. More than ever, the devices we use every day have the potential to talk to each other and work together. It’s what some people are calling the “Internet of things” or the “Energy Internet,” and it has the potential to put an amazing [...]
Is the Cloud Environmentally Friendly?
Answering the question, “is cloud computing eco friendly?” is an intricate task. There are many specialists, who claim that cloud computing is environmentally friendly, and many others who sternly believe it is not having any big influence. In fact, cloud computing has been attaining large popularity among consumers and enterprises for last several years. Many [...]
Reason #4 Why We Need Solar: Cloud Control
I thought I was done blogging on why we need solar – after all,climate politics, toxic plankton and geopolitical conquest seem likereason enough. But on Tuesday, Greenpeace released a report called “Make IT Green” about the Dark Side of “cloudcomputing” (the dreamy new term of art for the internet). The IT industry has a reputation [...]
Blue Volcano Stadium Equipped With ‘Solar Cloud’
With innovation clubbed with environment sensitivity at its peak, a newstadium at Zaberg designed by Croatia-based njiric+ arhitekti is uniquein its own right. It is an amazing volcano shaped piece ofarchitecture, circular, made of light-weighted materials, the ‘BlueVolacano’ as it has been nicknamed rises a little above the groundsurface to surround the area within. [...]
Njiric + Arhitekti’s Blue Volcano Stadium Features ‘Solar Cloud’
Eco Factor: Sustainable stadium concept designed to harvest renewable energy. Njiric + Arhitektihas designed a large stadium that tries to push the boundary of humanexperiences of public spaces. The sustainable stadium is housed withinan artificial hill made of recycled rubber, with a blue pigment sprayedonto corrugated aluminum sheets. Thegreen stadium features an open roof which [...]
Solar Cloud Provides Shade During The Day and Power At Night
TheSolar Cloud is an inflatable, overhanging structure that has beendesigned to provide shade to a large cit space. The structure isdesigned to be made from lightweight materials that can easily beinflated and erected. Designed by Giuseppe Guerriero and Kai Rover,the Solar Cloud carries lightweight solar cells that harness solarenergy. The structure has been designed for [...]