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Category: Green Computing

Wind Power Draws Facebook To Iowa

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"An abundance of wind-generated power" is chief of among the reasons Facebook will build a new data center in Iowa, the company said. Read more →

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Google Data Center To Get New Renewables From Duke

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Google will apparently get the clean energy it wants for an expanded North Carolina data center, as Duke Energy goes along with adding new renewable sources. Read more →

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Greenpeace: Apple Moves Towards Cleaner, Better Energy

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Apple released an environmental report Friday showing that it has made real progress in its effort to power the iCloud with renewable energy—not coal. Read more →

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The More Clean Energy Powered Apple Waves Its Eco Flag

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Apple's new environmental report, among key items, indicates 100 percent of its worldwide data centers are now fully powered by clean energy. Read more →

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One Of The Most Green Data Centers In The World

Steve Hammond, director of NREL's Computational Science Center, stands in front of air-cooled racks in the high performance computing (HPC) data center in the Energy Systems Integration Facility (ESIF). The rest of the system will be built out this summer using warm-water liquid cooling to reach an annualized average power usage effectiveness (PUE) rating of 1.06 or better. (image via NREL)

Meet the first HPC data center dedicated solely to advancing energy systems integration, renewable energy research, and energy efficiency technologies. Read more →

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The Mycestro: A 3D Thumb-Powered Mouse

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Imaging navigating your favorite website by wiggling your finger in mid-air. Mycestro makes it possible. Read more →

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There’s An App For That: Your Zero Electric Motorcycle, That Is

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Zero Motorcycles has issued an app allowing owners to monitor their bike's remaining charge and CO2 emission. The app is free and available for Android and iOS. Read more →

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Is Going Paperless A Google Greenwashing Scam?

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Less paper = more trees = happy Earth, right? Not according to the paper industry. Read more →

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Green Start Ups Seek Funding From The Crowd

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Sierra Club Geen Home reports on how an increasing number of green start ups are turning to crowdsource funding sites like Kickstarter for capital. Read more →

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Sandia Cooler Blows Traditional CPU Coolers Away

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The U.S. Department of Energy talks about a CPU cooler developed at one of its labs which helps reduce energy need to cool computers at data centers. Read more →

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