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Top tech companies plug into renewable power

Posted March 4, 2013 - 7:14 am

Leading tech companies like Microsoft, Google and Apple are making huge inroads in the use of renewable energy for corporate facilities and data centers, but cost and delivery challenges remain.
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Greenpeace summons Clippy to diss Microsoft's data centers

Posted October 27, 2012 - 8:25 pm

Having failed to establish a dialog with Microsoft on the issue of renewable energy, Greenpeace turned to Microsoft Office mascot Clippy to gain attention.
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Liquid solar cells: an innovative hazard

Posted May 26, 2012 - 7:46 am

As the race to find real renewable energy keep increasing its pace, some really innovative ideas have come out of some pretty poisonous materials. Take the University of Southern California's development with cadmium nanocrystals that are stable enough to conduct electricity and are able to float in a liquid solution, making them printable. This means "solar paint" is nearly within reach.
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This new wind turbine produces electricity and water

Posted May 5, 2012 - 7:30 am

In our pursuit of clean, renewable energy, wind turbines seem to always take a backseat to solar energy. We're constantly looking into new ways to harvest the Sun's energy, but what can you do with something that is essentially an oversized fan?
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Iceland’s carbon-neutral data center opens for business

Posted February 17, 2012 - 5:24 pm

Lights are on in this Icelandic data center
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Apple tills a solar farm to power its data center

Posted October 27, 2011 - 10:34 pm

Let the sun shine on Apple’s data centers.
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Energy worries? Not these two data center operators.

Posted September 30, 2011 - 4:58 pm

What do potato fields and hot springs have in common? Data centers.
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Softbank founder backs Japan's shift to renewable energy

Posted September 12, 2011 - 2:15 am

Japan's richest entrepreneur outlined a plan Monday to rebuild the country's energy infrastructure in the wake of its nuclear disaster, shifting the majority of supply to natural, renewable resources by 2030.
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Mobile operators that want to go green get help

Posted September 18, 2008 - 10:12 am

Industry organization GSM Association (GSMA) has launched the Green Power for Mobile program, which will help operators that want to use renewable power sources, including solar, wind or sustainable biofuels, to power base stations, it announced on Thursday.
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