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Social Media and Solar
Last month, EcoOutfitters asked 1BOG to participate in one of their Solar Chats on Twitter. Now, most Twitter gatherings involve a lot of hubbub, a troll or two, and not a whole lot of substance. Fortunately, though, the EcoOutfitters team has refined these events into well-oiled machines that are not only fun and informative, but [...]
Facebook Announces Real-Time Data Center Efficiency Stats
Facebook has just taken a bit of internal data center energy efficiency wizardry and made it available to the world. On Thursday, it opened access to the minute-by-minute power-use effectiveness (PUE) and water-use effectiveness (WUE) scores via dashboards for its Prineville, Ore. and Forest City, N.C. data centers, and promises to have its next super-efficient [...]
Facebook Slaps Massive Green Roof on New HQ
Facebook has the green light from Menlo Park’s city council to build a huge second campus that connects to its headquarters in Silicon Valley. The company says its new 433,555-square-foot building will blend into the landscape, thanks to an extensive green roof that covers most of the very long building. Designed by award-winning architect Frank Gehry, the goal for the white stucco [...]
Facebook and Cleantech
Social networks have helped support political uprisings. Can they motivate people to change their energy consumption? Facebook and the Cleantech Group are awarding $25,000 to one of Facebook’s 1 billion users who develops the best Facebook application to encourage renewables, sustainability or energy efficiency. The winner also receives guidance from the Cleantech Group and Facebook [...]
In Focus: Green Data Center Benefits
Today, there are millions of servers running worldwide on a daily basis. Often these are being upgraded and managed, but they are not always being used. It is estimated that these unused servers cost billions every year. This could be a major waste of money, as well as a waste of precious energy. Green data [...]
Calxeda’s Energy Efficient ARM Technology for Data Centers
Calxeda is an Austin, Texas, company that develops data center efficiency solutions. The company’s EnergyCore technology provides power-efficient data center architecture for large computer environments such as web servers, media streaming infrastructure and cloud storage. Calxeda owns at least one U.S. patent and three pending patent applications. U.S. Patent No. 8,180,996 is entitled “Distributed computing [...]
Google’s Data Center Powered by Oklahoma Wind Farm
Green data centers have become all the rage among the big tech companies like Apple and Facebook. In fact, the New York Times is running a series this past week detailing data center operations. Google has now made a significant statement by announcing this week that it has entered into a wind energy agreement with [...]
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 [...]
Summer 2012 Energy Consumption
One good way of looking at weather in the developed world is by looking at energy consumption. It tells you how much air conditioning people are using in the summer and how much heating they’re willing to pay for in the winter. Last year Japan was patriotically conserving energy, as they had shut down most [...]