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Facebook Faces Down Google for Title of Most Energy Efficient

October 30th, 2011 | by Tina Casey

Facebook and Google seem to be in an all-out war to see which company can come up with the best

Google’s Energy Efficient Data Centers {VIDEOS}

May 30th, 2011 | by Zachary Shahan

I shared a video on Google's Helsinki, Finland data center that is cooled 100% with sea water last week. To follow up, here's a series of short videos from Google on data center efficiency best practices that Google unveiled last week. Interesting stuff. Check them out

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Google Data Center in Finland to be 100% Cooled with Ocean Water {VIDEO}

May 26th, 2011 | by Zachary Shahan

This is pretty cool. You can get much of the story from the video above. But, in summary, by pumping sea water through an existing sea water tunnel (that was put in place by the paper mill that used to live there). The Hamina, Finland site was acquired in 2009 and, from the beginning, Google's team was very excited about using the unique features of the site to design a more eco-friendly data center -- that's what makes Google great (one of the things)