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Google’s New Dutch Data Center to be Powered by a New Wind Farm

Mila Luleva — Thu, 20 Nov 2014 08:43:54 +0000

Google announced their latest investment in a giant wind farm to power their new data center in the Netherlands. The wind farm is currently under construction by one of Netherland’s lead energy companies, Eneco, and it is set to begin operation in 2016. Google has been investing enormously in green power projects over the past few […]

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Used Electric Vehicle Batteries to Power European Data Centers

Mila Luleva — Wed, 19 Mar 2014 19:33:27 +0000

It is well known that large data centers account for quite a large portion of the total energy consumption around the world, and the numbers are only expected to grow. Although many tech giants, including Google and Apple, are now turning to renewable energy sources to power their new facilities, generally most wind and solar […]

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NREL’s New Energy Efficient Data Center Going Live

Benji Jerew — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 22:14:19 +0000

With the growth of the internet and the inherent need for data storage, NREL’s new energy efficient data center makes perfect sense. Of course, who would you expect to install such a center except the National Renewable Energy Laboratory [NREL]? The role of the NREL isn’t only to develop renewable energy, but also more efficient […]

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Data Centers Could Work at Higher Temps to Save Energy

Benji Jerew — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 06:21:01 +0000

The internet is a huge network of interconnected computers. Hundreds of thousands of servers quickly store, locate, and retrieve data, sometimes from halfway around the world, and usually thousands of times per second. This requires massive amounts of power, greater than 1% of the energy output of the entire world. For example, Google has about […]

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Apple’s North Carolina Data Center to Be Powered by Nation’s Largest User-Owned Solar Array

Ovidiu Sandru — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 03:48:48 +0000

The intelligence behind Apple’s Siri is going to be run by the data center powered by the largest end-user-owned solar array. The company that Steve Jobs founded more than 30 years ago is now going to catch up with the others, including Google, in what the environment in concerned. The North Carolina data center has […]

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Yahoo Will Build the Most Green and Efficient Data Center

Cristi — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:34:39 +0000

Yahoo is going green! This news was presented at a press conference in Buffalo, New York, by Yahoo representatives a few days ago. In a world where everybody needs to turn green and needs to make use of as much as possible clean energy sources, Yahoo is making a big step.

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