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Greenpeace Slams Apple's 'Dirty' iCloud

Rob Quinn — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 01:03:00 CDT

Apple is the worst offender among tech giants relying on "dirty energy" like coal to fuel gigantic data centers, according to a scathing Greenpeace report released this week. The report also slammed Amazon and Microsoft for excessive energy use, while praising Facebook, Google, and Yahoo for their efforts to use...

Facebook Expands ... on Edge of Arctic Circle

Kate Schwartz — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 07:53:37 CDT

Facebook's quest for world domination is taking it to the edge of the Arctic Circle. The company today confirmed that it plans to open a new server farm in Lulea, Sweden—its first outside the US. The city, located just 60 miles south of the Arctic Circle, is a chilly...

Google's Juicy Addiction: Cheap Electric

Laila Weir — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:04:23 CST

No industrial smokestacks rise from that cute Google logo, but each click of the search button takes an environmental toll, Harper's reports. Google and its competitors are guzzling electricity to power ever-larger server complexes, and a renewable-energy initiative is more about making amends than benevolence. A new taxpayer-subsidized Google center...

Cisco Unveils A Much Faster Switch

Laila Weir — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 13:25:22 CST

Cisco is introducing a network switch today that can handle much greater quantities of data traffic than its current products. Aimed at corporations working with large amounts of Internet and remote data, as well as ISPs, the Nexus 7000 switch would be capable of transferring all 90,000 of Netflix’s...

Data Centers Ahoy!

Nick McMaster — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 09:00:02 CST

This spring will see the debut of a curious new green tech innovation: the floating data center. As an alternative to typical off-site computer backups, a startup plans to build its server networks inside shipping containers stored on cargo ships. International Data Security will open the first at San Francisco’s...

Mobile Servers Save Energy, Add Capacity

Dustin Lushing — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 17:30:24 CDT

Sun Microsystems has a solution for the booming demand for network space, and as a bonus, it lowers energy use: packing servers into steel shipping containers that can be parked wherever they're needed. It's called Project Blackbox, and Sun says it reduces power consumption by 20%. The giant 20-foot boxes...