Greenpeace Ratchets Pressure on Facebook
Facebook continues to be the target of a campaign by environmentalists at Greenpeace, who are royally upset at the social media giant's new data center being built in Oregon. In spite of claims by Facebook that the data center is...
Fujitsu's Eco Mouse Causes a Lion's Roar in Controversy
As anyone who's spent time in Washington knows, it's not the crime that matters, it's the coverup. I was reminded of this lesson recently as I followed a story that's been trending upwards in the blogosphere about Green IT marketing....
U.S. Bank Deposits Green IT Savings
U.S. Bank, one of the country's largest financial services firms, has been on a hunt recently for energy savings and carbon reductions. Like a lot of companies, the savings are coming from physical plant audits, which have resulted in programmable...
Ready, Fire, Aim! GOP Launches First Attacks on EPA
When the GOP won back control of the House of Representatives last November, there was a lot of collective breath-holding to see what would happen to the White House's signature efforts to curtail greenhouse gasses such as carbon. Last week,...
Monday News Roundup
Monday News Roundup Feb 1, 2011 THE world's largest carrier-neutral data centre company, Equinix Inc, will use recycled Newater to cool the new 'green' data centre (DC) that it is building in Singapore. As reported earlier, the company is investing...
Climate Czar Departs Obama Administration
Of the many things that President Obama did when he first assumed office, one that particularly rankled Republicans was his appointment of "czars," to head specific policy initiatives. These positions are outside of his normal Cabinet-level posts, and therefore did...
Carbon Permit Thefts Embarass European Union
The European Trading Scheme (ETS) is supposed to be the pride and joy of the European Union's carbon cap and trade scheme. The scheme started in 2005 and reached an impressive trading volume of 80 billion Euros last year. The...
GE Invests $520 Million into Green IT
If you had any doubt that green IT would continue to be a hotbed of activity in 2011 due to legislative quagmires, GE laid some of those doubts to rest this week by announcing it was spending $520 million to...
CEA Releases 2010 Sustainability Report
Many readers know the Consumer Electronics Association as the industry group that sponsors the annual CES show in Las Vegas, where many of the year's latest and hottest products and services in the $170 billion consumer electronics industry are unveiled....
Bank Shows How Green IT is Won One Watt at a Time
Very few data center operators have the budget to build an entirely new data center every few years. In fact, the vast majority of data centers are several years old and were therefore built at a time when few people...
Move to Delay EPA for Two Years Gathers Steam
The passing of power from Democrats to Republicans in the House of Representatives means that there is no chance of comprehensive energy legislation passing in the next two years, until the next general election. Environmentalists have more to deal with...
Carbon Regulations in 2011: How Bad Will it Get?
2010 was supposed to be the year that the U.S. got serious about carbon emissions and the global warming it supposedly causes. A serious attack on carbon emissions, plus a carbon cap-and-trade scheme, would have created a limit on carbon...
Google Celebrates a Very Green 2010
As 2010 draws to a close, few Green IT stories stand out as much as Google's. As much as Google can be criticized for its secrecy and failure to be completely transparent about its data center operations (such as how...
EPA Moves Forward in Carbon Fight; Texas Drags Feet
It's a little odd to talk about global warming when it seems like an icebox in much of the world, with another snowstorm pummeling the East Coast, but in fact the cold weather is a sign of climate change. As...
Server Farm Realty Nearly Finishes Green Data Center
Last month, Red Sea Group (RSG), a real investment development company, launched Server Farm Realty to develop data centers, starting with one in Silicon Valley and another in Washington state. The data centers are designed to achieve some of the...
California Formally Approves Carbon Cap and Trade Program
After surviving a legal challenge at the ballot box through a oil-industry funded recall initiative in November that it survived with a surprisingly wide margin, California's AB 32, the nation's widest-ranging carbon cap-and-trade plan, is about to be implemented. On...
Post Cancun: What's Next for Kyoto Protocols?
Now that the Cancun Agreements have moved the world's countries closer to some agreement on technical assistance, financial aid, and target-setting for carbon emissions reductions, one question on a lot of people's minds is what happens next to the Kyoto...
"Miracle" in Cancun
Perhaps President Obama should have just stayed home rather than attend the disastrous Copenhagen conference a year ago. That appears to be the lesson emerging out of Cancun this weekend, where UN climate change negotiators, attempting to rescue the international...
The Green Grid Releases New Carbon Metric for Data Centers
The Green Grid is a global consortium of IT companies and professionals seeking to improve energy efficiency in data centers. Membership includes virtually all the names, big and small, in Green IT, from Google to Microsoft to Oracle to Hitachi...
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