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Apple and Greenpeace Trade Blows in Data Center Grudge Match
Call it the battle of Maiden. This week, Apple and Greenpeace traded very public barbs over how much clean power is used by Apple's $1 billion state-of-the-art data center in Maiden, North Carolina....
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Apple Vows to Build ’100% Renewable Energy’ Data Center
Apple has broken ground on a brand-new data center in Prineville, Oregon -- one that the company is billing as even more environmentally friendly than the Maiden, North Carolina, facility that powers...
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Greenpeace Shames Apple With, Um, Fake Window-Washing
Greenpeace has upped the ante in its fight to get Apple to commit to using more renewable energy in its data centers. Or at least it tried to up the ante.
View Article‘Dirty’ Energy Co. Yanks Paper Bragging About Apple’s Power-Guzzling Ways
The utility company that supplies power to Apple's Maiden, North Carolina, data center has pulled a paper from its website that bragged about Apple's energy-guzzling ways. The paper was a puff piece...
View ArticleAfter Greenpeace Protests, Apple Promises to Dump Coal Power
Apple is cleaning up its energy act. The computer company says that by early next year, the energy used to power its worldwide data centers will all come from renewable sources, such as solar, wind...
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Research | Nano Breakthrough Paves Way for Super Cheap Solar Panels
One of the reasons solar panels are so expensive is that it’s tricky to extract electric currents from semiconductors, the materials used to convert solar radiation into electrical energy. Up til now,...
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Cloud | Greenpeace Drops Clippy Bomb on Microsoft
Microsoft may have retired Clippy five years ago, but yesterday, the annoying Office icon popped up -- unwanted of course -- at the company's Palo Alto, California retail store.
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Data Centers | Microsoft Uncovers Special Bond Between Computers and Toilets
After years of careful research, Microsoft has uncovered the data center's long-lost cousin: the sewage treatment plant.
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Cloud | Data Centers Eye Second Raid on Your Cellphone
In 2010, Christos Kozyrakis spent a few weeks at Microsoft's campus in Redmond, Washington, and he continued to collaborate with Microsoft's researchers for several months after he left. What he...
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Data Centers | Apple’s Data Centers Now 100 Percent Green (Or Something Like...
Apple’s data centers are now completely powered by renewable energy, according to Apple. The iCloud maker operates data centers in the Bay Area and Maiden North Carolina, and on Thursday, it announced...
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