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Mini Wind Turbines to Help Power SC Johnson's Ark. Office

SC Johnson re: renewables "committed to reducing enviro. footprint" Continues to make pesticides/ziploc bags. WTF?
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Top 5 Data Center Stories, Week of May 18th

Top 5 Data Center Stories, Week of May 18th | Green IT Focus | Scoop.it
A look at the hot aisle containment systems at the Microsoft data center in Quincy, Washington, which has since expanded to include modular data centers housed outdoors.
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Facebook launches live efficiency dashboard – touts green credentials

Facebook launches live efficiency dashboard – touts green credentials | Green IT Focus | Scoop.it
Facebook has launched a new dashboard that lets users monitor the efficiency of data centers in near real time.
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Apple Now Powered 75% By Renewable Energy, Goal Of 100%

Apple Now Powered 75% By Renewable Energy, Goal Of 100% | Green IT Focus | Scoop.it
The massive American multinational corporation Apple is continuing to make large strides in its pursuit of 100% renewable energy.
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Laser cooling of semiconductors by annihilating excitations

Laser cooling of semiconductors by annihilating excitations | Green IT Focus | Scoop.it
A visible-light laser rapidly cools some semiconductors by 40 degrees.
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India's green IT, sustainability spend to hit $45B in 2012

India's green IT, sustainability spend to hit $45B in 2012 | Green IT Focus | Scoop.it
The country's spend on green IT and sustainability efforts is expected to jump to US$70 billion by 2015, fueled by the government's push for greater adoption.
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Microsoft plans biogas-fueled data center that runs off the grid

Microsoft plans biogas-fueled data center that runs off the grid | Green IT Focus | Scoop.it
The small demonstration project in Wyoming will run a series of compute-intensive research and modeling applications for the local university.
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Optimal temperature for data center computers

Optimal temperature for data center computers | Green IT Focus | Scoop.it
Papers on how best to identify trending stories on Twitter and on just how cool computers in data centers need to be kept has won accolades for faculty and students from UTSC's Department of Computer & Mathematical Sciences.
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Guadalupe McLagan liked Apple to use only green power for main data center

Guadalupe McLagan liked Apple to use only green power for main data center | Green IT Focus | Scoop.it
Guadalupe McLagan liked Apple to use only green power for main data center: (Reuters) - Apple Inc plans to power its… http://t.co/DfZ9zWT7...
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Sustainable Design and Green Data Centers - Buildipedia.com

Sustainable Design and Green Data Centers - Buildipedia.com | Green IT Focus | Scoop.it
Data centers balance their growing power consumption with renewable energy initiatives.
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Charging Your Gadgets with Solar Power

Charging Your Gadgets with Solar Power | Green IT Focus | Scoop.it
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Biomimetic Carpet Mimics “Mud Hole” to Harvest Energy from Ocean Waves

Biomimetic Carpet Mimics “Mud Hole” to Harvest Energy from Ocean Waves | Green IT Focus | Scoop.it
  Carpets and mud don't usually make a good pairing, but a new energy-harvesting...
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Bloom Boxes Will Power Utah Data Center

Bloom Boxes Will Power Utah Data Center | Green IT Focus | Scoop.it
The newest eBay data center project in Utah will run entirely on power generated by fuel cells from Bloom Energy, the company said this week.
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Amsterdam Data Centre Cooled By Groundwater

Amsterdam Data Centre Cooled By Groundwater | Green IT Focus | Scoop.it
A new data centre in Amsterdam is using naturally stored groundwater to cool its servers, greatly improving energy efficiency.
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Reflecting On Our Commitment to Sustainability

Reflecting On Our Commitment to Sustainability | Green IT Focus | Scoop.it
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Google Floats Renewable Energy Data Center Plan

Google Floats Renewable Energy Data Center Plan | Green IT Focus | Scoop.it
Google tries to use its buying clout to prod utilities to offer renewable energy option.
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NREL Readies Launch of World’s Most Energy-Efficient High-Performance Data Center

NREL Readies Launch of World’s Most Energy-Efficient High-Performance Data Center | Green IT Focus | Scoop.it
Looking to walk the clean-energy and energy-efficiency talk, the US Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is about to flip the switch on the world's most energy efficient high-performance computing (HPC) data center.
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Going green key to staying in the black

Going green key to staying in the black | Green IT Focus | Scoop.it
Japanese electronics firm believes eco-friendly products will power its next stage of growth, and points to offerings with monitoring and demand-response management technology as the way forward.
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10 ways to make your data center greener

10 ways to make your data center greener | Green IT Focus | Scoop.it
The software giant discloses some internal best practices for developing 'environmentally sustainable' infrastructure -- as it pushes more of its applications toward cloud delivery.
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Google data center in Oklahoma to get 48MW of wind power

Google data center in Oklahoma to get 48MW of wind power | Green IT Focus | Scoop.it
Google has made a point of relying on renewable resources for its data centers whenever possible, even down to the cooling.
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Green lasers hamper 6 rescue missions at SC coast

Green lasers hamper 6 rescue missions at SC coast | Green IT Focus | Scoop.it
MyrtleBeachOnline.comGreen lasers hamper 6 rescue missions at SC coastSacramento BeeMYRTLE BEACH, S.C.
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Facebook Says 23 Percent of Data-Center Power Is Green

Facebook Says 23 Percent of Data-Center Power Is Green | Green IT Focus | Scoop.it
Facebook Inc., owner of the world’s largest online social network, derived almost one-fourth of its energy for data centers from clean and renewable sources last year.
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Personal Solar-Powered Floating Island Home

Personal Solar-Powered Floating Island Home | Green IT Focus | Scoop.it
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Data Center Independence on 4th of July 2012

Data Center Independence on 4th of July 2012 | Green IT Focus | Scoop.it
Mike Manos has a post on AOL's Data Center independence.  The micro data center looks like it has a 50KW capacity which could support a configuration like 100 dual proc 128 GB RAM,  dual HD servers, network switch, and storage appliance.
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IBM ‘hot water cooling’ saves 40% of supercomputer emissions

IBM ‘hot water cooling’ saves 40% of supercomputer emissions | Green IT Focus | Scoop.it
The Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) and IBM have announced the world's first commercially available hot-water cooled supercomputer.
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eBay Commits to Renewable Energy for Next Data Center

eBay Commits to Renewable Energy for Next Data Center | Green IT Focus | Scoop.it
The Earth TimeseBay Commits to Renewable Energy for Next Data CenterPC MagazineEBay is going green, announcing today plans to build the next phase of the company's data center primarily using renewable energy.eBay goes green, plans data center running...
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