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Microsoft Testing Biogas Fuel Cell for Future Sustainable Data Centers

Benji Jerew — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 17:16:13 +0000

Well-known software company, Microsoft, in its efforts toward sustainable data centers, has teamed up with Danbury Connecticut’s FuelCell Energy to test a combination of energy technologies. “With the demand for renewable energy resources outstripping available power supplies today, Microsoft is researching new methods to help our operations become more efficient and environmentally sustainable,” said Gregg […]

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Microsoft to Become Carbon Neutral by Internally Taxing Carbon Emitted by Own Offices

Ovidiu Sandru — Wed, 09 May 2012 15:10:10 +0000

Microsoft is going green starting July – the latest news tell that’s for sure. However they’re not taking the Facebook or Apple approach to that, but a rather more bureaucratic, systematized and nevertheless still effective way – they’re putting an internal tax on carbon emissions to each of their U.S. offices. Well, that may sound […]

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Microsoft Hohm and Google PowerMeter Closing Their Power Saving Services

Ovidiu Sandru — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 11:09:24 +0000

It looks like the world doesn't care much about saving electricity, when gasoline is way more expensive and companies like Google or Microsoft are even thinking of charging their users for saving that power. The conclusion: Microsoft and Google have both decided that it's time to end their Hohm and Power Meter services, reasoning that they didn't have much success on the market, even if offered as free.

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