Mention electric cars, and some people will go off on a tirade about how there is not enough electricity to charge them all, and if they happened to be charging at the same time, the electrical grid will implode as transmission wires melt and transformers self-destruct in a shower of … [continued]
If you are only burning a few hundred gallons a year for a data center drawing 100 MW 24/7/365, the cost and carbon debt of fuel for your generators is not material.
Iron Mountain Incorporated, one of the world’s leading storage and information management companies, announced this week that it has expanded its commitment to powering its data centers with renewable energy through new transactions which will ensure their Texas and Illinois facilities are powered by 100% renewable power.
Global non-governmental environmental organization Greenpeace and internet giant Amazon are trading blows over a report published earlier this week by Greenpeace, which claims that Amazon Web Services is only meeting 12% of its renewable energy commitment in Virginia’s “data center alley.”
ABB’s solutions are helping an underground data center in Europe tap into local renewables to clean up its carbon footprint.
Google has made a big deal of its desires to be powered by 100% renewable energy, and in a recent blog post, the company has explained exactly what it means by that goal. Gary Demasi, Google Director of Data Center Energy & Location Strategy, took to the Google Green Blog … [continued]
Facebook has announced that it plans to build a 100% renewable energy powered data center in Ireland, its second in Europe. Tom Furlong, the company’s Vice President of Infrastructure, announced the news via a blog post on the company’s Newsroom, revealing that the new data center would be built in … [continued]
Amazon Web Services has announced its largest renewable energy project to date, a 208 MW wind farm that will supply current and future Amazon cloud data centers. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is responsible for hosting many of the internet’s most popular websites, where “the cloud” most assuredly meets the ground … [continued]
Originally published on RenewEconomy. By Sophie Vorrath Facebook has become the latest example of a global internet giant tapping cheap and clean renewable energy, with the announcement on Tuesday that it is co-developing a 200MW wind farm in Texas to provide power for its fifth data centre – a $1 … [continued]
Amazon Web Services (AWS) made public its long-rumored plans to build three new data centers near Columbus, Ohio, at the end of May, along with fulfillment centers for Amazon.com that exceed a total investment of $1 billion. Given that Ohio’s electricity grid is powered predominantly by coal, current and potential customers of … [continued]
