Tag: google
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Equinix rolls out 1MW fuel cell for Silicon Valley data center
Equinix is powering one of its Silicon Valley data centers with a 1MW Bloom Energy fuel cell
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Apple launches ResearchKit – secure, private, open source medical research
Apple announced a new initiative at its Spring Forward event yesterday – ResearchKit. What is ResearchKit? Apple’s SVP of Operations, Jeff Williams, described it as a framework for medical researchers to create and deploy mobile apps which collect and share medical data from phone users (with their permission), and share it with the researchers. Why…
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Technology for Good – episode thirty two with SAP’s Sameer Patel
Welcome to episode thirty two of the Technology for Good hangout. In this week’s episode we had SAP‘s Sameer Patel as the guest on our show. Sameer and I are members of the Enterprise Irregulars group – a loose group of analysts and vendors with an interest in enterprise software. Previous Enterprise Irregulars who have…
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Cloud computing companies ranked by their use of renewable energy
Cloud computing is booming. Cloud providers are investing billions in infrastructure to build out their data centers, but just how clean is cloud? Given that this is the week that the IPCC’s 5th assessment report was released, I decided to do some research of my own into cloud providers. The table above is a list…
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Cloud Computing: Google Apps cloud has a relatively high carbon intensity
I have been researching and publishing on Cloud Computing for quite some time here. Specifically, I’ve been highlighting how it is not possible to know if Cloud computing is truly sustainable because none of the significant Cloud providers are publishing sufficient data about their energy consumption, carbon emissions and water use. It is not enough…
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Facebook hires Google’s former Green Energy Czar Bill Weihl, and increases its commitment to renewables
Google has had an impressive record in renewable energy. They invested over $850m dollars in renewable energy projects to do with geothermal, solar and wind energy. They entered into 20 year power purchase agreements with wind farm producers guaranteeing to buy their energy at an agreed price for twenty years giving the wind farms an…
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SAP’s latest Sustainability Report is Awesome!
SAP released its 2009 Sustainability Report during the week and if last years Sustainability Report was good, this one is outta the park! SAP released their first Sustainability Report in November 08 reporting on the 2007 year. It was a good initial effort (prepared in accordance with the GRI guidelines and achieving a “C” level…