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Energy Efficiency or Dirty Digital Footprints? Looking at "Green" Websites' Energy Use
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Most people think the web is a green medium, but the average website has a carbon footprint similar to a book or a newspaper. A 2011 analysis suggests IT is responsible for two to four percent of global greenhouse gas emissions.[read more]
Google Embraces Renewables for Energy Efficiency
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Google’s data centers typically use half the power of a conventional one through various energy efficiency means, saving the company over $1 billion in energy costs.[read more]
5 Ideal Participants for Demand Response
For years, utility companies have relied on demand response to protect the electric grid in times of extreme demand. But which organizations are ideal candidates for it?[read more]
Clouds Have A Heavier Energy Footprint Than Expected
The term cloud computing suggests an ethereal realm of software and data. But the servers, cooling systems, and back-up generators that undergird popular internet services remain stubbornly earthbound, and carry a heavy and growing energy footprint.“They don’t get a bonus for saving on the electric bill. They get a bonus for having the...[read more]
Can N.B. land Google?
CHELSEA MURRAY TELEGRAPH-JOURNAL As the IT industry’s greenhouse gas emissions skyrocket, corporations such as Google are looking for locations abundant in cheap renewable resources to house their infamous energy-sucking data centres. At U.S.-based data centres, Google spends 40 per cent of annual payroll costs on health care compared...[read more]
Offshore wind power and data center?
A reader points out a news release by Baryonyx Corp. announcing its success in a recent Texas lease offer for two offshore wind concessions. Baryonyx intends not only to build the offshore wind power plants but also to co-locate a high-reliability data center with the wind farms. File the idea as “just so crazy it might work.” At first...[read more]
The Squander Sector
According to the EC, the European ICT sector should not only deprive less energy themselves but also develop solutions to lessen energy consumption in other sectors. The European Commission warns that fuel consumption will increase with 25% by 2012 if no measures are taken. One notes that data centres deprive a lot energy unnecessarily...[read more]
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