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Article | 21/12/2011 Google invests in more renewable energy production capacity
Google has paid US$94 million for a stake in four photovoltaic power generation projects around Sacramento, California, bringing its total investment ...
Article | 19/12/2011 Apple supplier Pegatron reports explosion at subsidiary in China
Apple supplier Pegatron reported that an explosion occurred at a subsidiary company in China, with Shanghai authorities stating that 61 workers were s...
Article | 16/12/2011 Facebook unfriends coal, friends Greenpeace in clean energy campaign
Greenpeace International has ended a long-running campaign calling on Facebook to "unfriend coal" as a source of energy for its data centers, after Fa...
Article | 12/12/2011 Japan group to build smart power grids that treat energy like network data
Using concepts from IT and networking, a Japanese consortium plans to develop large-scale energy grids that will handle power the way the Internet han...
Article | 8/12/2011 Apple MacBook component factory in China still shut down
Chinese authorities continue to inspect a factory that produces aluminum casings for Apple's MacBook laptops, following residents' complaints of unbea...
Article | 3/12/2011 Facebook sets up New York engineering shop
Facebook is expanding its operations in the Big Apple, announcing on Friday plans to open an engineering office in New York in 2012.
Article | 16/11/2011 Apple to audit suppliers after pollution concerns, groups say
Apple plans to hire a third-party auditing firm to investigate 15 of its suppliers suspected of violating environmental regulations, according to loca...
Article | 8/11/2011 Google's 'green energy czar' to leave the company this week
Bill Weihl, Google's "green energy czar," is leaving the company this week after steering its clean energy efforts for almost six years.
Article | 4/11/2011 Foxconn's parent may be planning to make robots
The parent of Apple supplier Foxconn has broken ground on a new R&D (research and development) facility in Taiwan to produce what could be robots ...
Article | 2/11/2011 HP's first ARM server for testing only
Hewlett-Packard is developing servers based on a low-power microprocessor design from ARM Holdings, and claims it can slash power and space requiremen...
Article | 1/11/2011 Supply of critical rare-earth elements about to expand
There are rare-earth elements in your computer, digital camera, television, smartphone, in the batteries of hybrid vehicles, in long-lasting lightbulb...
Article | 28/10/2011 Facebook data center project takes aim at vendor lock-in
By launching the Open Compute Project as a stand-alone foundation, Facebook is hoping to further standardize the market for data center equipment, the...
Article | 27/10/2011 Facebook will cool its first European data center for free in Sweden
Facebook has begun building a data center in Lulea, Sweden, where it will benefit from cheap electricity and year-round free air cooling, the company ...
Article | 22/10/2011 Uptime Institute kicks off server roundup contest
The Uptime Institute has launched its first Server Roundup Contest to encourage data center operators to retire obsolete servers and reduce their ener...
Article | 20/10/2011 Sony delays new camera launch due to Thai flooding
Sony said Thursday it has been forced to postpone the launch of a new camera and cut production of another because a factory in Thailand has been affe...