Articles associated with topic: green energy

• 'Wind Mines' Could Become Datacenters' Savior

  [caption id="attachment_10794" align="aligncenter" width="501"] Datacenters are notoriously power hungry.[/caption] Major IT vendors have been including custom-built wind- and solar-power farms in their datacen…
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  SunShot Initiative Funding Data-Driven Research Into Solar Energy

  The U.S. Department of Energy plans on investing $9 million in seven “data-driven” projects for improving solar-energy technology in the United States. The investment is part of the department’s broader SunShot…
• Google Nears $1 Billion Investment in Green Power

  Google has invested $75 million in an Iowa wind farm, bringing its total spend on renewable energy close to a billion dollars. The equity investment in a 50-megawatt wind farm in Rippey, a small town an hour ou…
• Wind to Power Google Data Center

  Who says all data center operators are power mad? Perhaps in response to the ongoing New York Times series on data-center power consumption (including its latest piece on Microsoft’s practices) Google took the…
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  Changing The Way The World Moves

  How Ford’s Technical Specialists Manage a Globalized Workforce The automotive industry is in a state of rapid change. In addition to the expedient move to electrification, auto manufacturers around the world ar…
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  BMW's Connected Cars Force New Data Center

  BMW said this week that it is buying space at a data center in Iceland, in response to the torrent of data the company expects from its connected cars. BMW will lease space at the Verne Global facility, but the…
• Microsoft Offers Tips for Green Data Centers

  Microsoft has released a lengthy whitepaper describing ten practices for green data centers, mostly based on efficiently matching workloads to hardware. Unsurprisingly, the paper encourages the use of virtualiz…
• Google, Apple Plan Data Center Expansions

  Google’s expansion in its data-center operations includes some new infrastructure in Europe. Google acknowledged spending $177 million (150 million Euro) to double the capacity of a data center in Hamina, Finla…
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  Why Finding Your 'Work-Life Integration' is Better Than 'Work-Life Balance'

  We’re all familiar with the so-called Work-Life Balance. But, this conjures up visions of see-saws that must be perfectly balanced with equal weights on both ends at all times to ensure success. I personally be…