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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 [...]
Confimed Shrinkage: Solar Venture Capital Funding
The amount of venture capital (VC)—early-stage funding with higher risks, but high potential returns—going to solar companies continues to shrink, according to a new report from Mercom Capital Group. The report found that solar venture capital in the first quarter of 2013 fell to $126 million, almost a third of the $324 million in the [...]
Future Technology: Will Intel Be Inside?
Intel derived its name from Integrated Electronics Corporation which was incorporated on July 18, 1968, by semiconductor pioneers Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore. The company is headquartered in Santa Clara, California and enjoys being the world’s largest semiconductor chip maker, based on revenue. Intel is the inventor of the x86 series of microprocessors which is [...]
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 [...]
The Original Silicon Valley
San Francisco’s South Bay- Many of the world’s phattest (I’m including East Bay here) tech corporations & most intriguing startups are right here. One third of all venture capital investors in the US come here to prospect, if Wikipedia is to be trusted on such stats. First the Gold Rush, now the Cash Rush…or should [...]
The Big Movers in the Corporate Green Ranking Report
As reviewed in a June 4, 2012 Environmental Leader article, Computer chip maker Intel and home appliance manufacturer Whirlpool have been named as the major US firms with the strongest environmental governance, policies, and infrastructure in a report by sustainability consultants Soyka & Company. Intel maintained their top spot for 2012 in the Benchmarking Analysis [...]
The 5 Greenest Online Retailers
Everyone on Earth should strive to be environmentally responsible. With the way that people blatantly litter and pollute our home, who knows if our species- or any species- will exist in another 100 years. While the way we handle our affairs now may not necessarily affect us in the future, we should care enough to [...]
Intel to Raise Efficiency Across the Board
Last month we reported that Intel ranks first in the nation for using renewable energy, holding onto its position since 2008. In 2011, Intel used renewable energy for 88% of electricity, almost double that of the previous year. The company gets renewables from biomass, geothermal, small-hydro, solar and wind, by buying certificates and from on-site generation. Since 2009, it’s [...]
The 3D ‘Ivy Bridge’ Processor from Intel
Not sure how many of you have heard about Moore’s law, but, to put things simply; it states that the number of transistors on a silicon device has to double every two years. While, we all have practically seen the dimensions of devices diminishing, we haven’t given much thought to how this makes cramming in [...]