Around the world, data centers consume around 1.5 percent of total electricity demand, a figure that’s expected to increase significantly. Greenpeace predicts power consumption will grow 19 percent by 2013 to… Read more »
It seems that the last six months has brought an increasing focus on Apple’s conscience as everything from its labor practices in Asia to it its sourcing of power for its… Read more »
Cleantech continues to be a diverse market of opportunities, and in the second quarter of 2012 companies worked to monetize strategies to leverage consumer and corporate interest in going green. Key highlights from… Read more »
The question of where to build your data center has become increasingly complex as the power demands of data centers themselves have grown, making power the largest operational cost for data… Read more »
Changes in the power market are rippling through the Internet industry, altering both the location of data centers and their sources of power. Read more »
Buried in last week’s catfight between Apple and Greenpeace over the energy sourcing for Apple’s new North Carolina data center and how clean it would be, was a surprising fact—that the… Read more »
On a week in which Microsoft joined Apple in earning poor sustainability grades from Greenpeace, Microsoft’s General Manager of Data Center Services, Christian Belady, penned a post about the future of… Read more »
Finally, smart-thermostat darling Nest hit a snag when Honeywell slapped it with a broad patent-infringement lawsuit over IP related to building a learning thermostat. As much a competitive strategy as anything… Read more »
There is a big connection between Facebook’s large and growing infrastructure budget and advertising, the latter of which is the primary culprit behind many privacy concerns. The gist is that ad-supported… Read more »
As more large data centers move to converged infrastructure — which is offered by Cisco, Hewlett-Packard, Oracle and other vendors — most of the chatter has been about this slick, new… Read more »