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  • February 2008

    • Google's Juicy Addiction: Cheap Electric

      Harper's  |  Feb 18, 08 5:04 PM CST

      Google's Juicy Addiction: Cheap Electric

      (Newser) - 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 along Oregon’s Columbia River will likely use a Tacoma-sized chunk of power. More »

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      Google  • Microsoft  • electricity  • AT&T  • nuclear power  • renewable energy  • fossil fuel  • computer servers  • environmental impact  • data centers  • industrial pollution

  • January 2008

    • Cisco Unveils A Much Faster Switch

      New York Times  |  Jan 28, 08 1:25 PM CST

      Cisco Unveils A Much Faster Switch

      (Newser) - 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 movies in just 38.4 seconds, reports the New York Times . More »

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      Cisco Systems  • computer network  • data centers

    • Data Centers Ahoy!

      ComputerWorld  |  Jan 12, 08 9:00 AM CST

      Data Centers Ahoy!

      (Newser) - 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 Pier 50 in April, ComputerWorld reports. More »

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      San Francisco  • innovation  • disaster recovery  • data centers

  • June 2007

    • Mobile Servers Save Energy, Add Capacity

      Bloomberg  |  Jun 22, 07 5:30 PM CDT

      Mobile Servers Save Energy, Add Capacity

      (Newser) - 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 sell for $500,000 a pop. More »

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      Internet  • Google  • Microsoft  • Yahoo  • online videos  • Stanford University  • Stanford  • Sun Microsystems  • network  • particle accelerator  • data centers  • servers  • storage

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