Tag: renewable energy
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Digital Supply Chain – Women in Supply Chain a chat with @circular_nomad and @supplychnqueen
As well as running the Digital Supply Chain podcast, and the Industry 4.0 themed series of podcasts, I decided to also spin up a new series – themed around the topic of Women in Supply Chain. This series will strive to highlight the stories of women leaders in Supply Chain to attempt to address the…
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Technology is moving us to a world where energy is cheaper, smarter, and less carbon intensive
More and more variable electricity generation sources (wind and solar) are being added to the grid. Can technology help bed these in without making the electricity grid more unstable?
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Apple puts its environmental initiatives front and centre at its spring event
Apple held it’s annual spring event yesterday in Palo Alto to make iPhone, iPad, and iOS related announcements (amongst others). However, this year for a change the first executive invited to address the audience was Apple’s vice president of Environment, Policy and Social Initiatives, former EPA Administrator, Lisa Jackson. Lisa was greeted by warm applause which became…
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Salesforce on track to being the cloud crm provider with the lowest carbon emissions
We have highlighted often enough what a poor job some cloud companies are doing of making their cloud infrastructure cleaner, and being transparent about their emissions. Against that backdrop, it is heartening to see some more enlightened cloud companies doing the right thing. Salesforce announced today its second renewable energy purchase agreement. The first announcement,…
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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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IBM to increase the amount of renewable electricity it procures
After returning from IBM’s InterConnect conference recently we chided IBM for their aping of Amazon’s radical opaqueness concerning their cloud emissions, and their lack of innovation concerning renewables. However, some better news emerged in the last few days. The Whitehouse last week hosted a roundtable of some of the largest Federal suppliers to discuss their…
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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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Friday Green Numbers round-up 06/25/2010
Photo credit Unhindered by Talent And here is this week’s Green numbers: Six Infrastructure Projects to Save 1.3 Billion Gallons of Water in Australia Australia is no stranger to tight water supplies, and fortunately that means smart water conservation strategies are being devised all the time. Australia is leading the way in everything from strategies…