Coming from the construction industry, which is dead last of fifteen verticals investing in technology (according to a recent Gartner report), I was amazed to learn that such old tools were used to optimize space and predictive analytics for later phased expansions plague data center projects, too.
As Hurricane Sandy made landfall Monday, the freak storm flooded data centers in New York City, taking down several major websites and services -- inc...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is opening a virtual window into the secretive data centers where an intricate maze of computers process Internet search...
Let's stipulate that, like breathing or ocean tides, we cannot and should not stop the trend toward a digital society. Let's also stipulate that it is absolute folly to attempt to regulate what people can and cannot do on the Internet in the name of energy efficiency.
Most data centers, by design, consume vast amounts of energy in an incongruously wasteful manner, interviews and documents show. Online companies typ...
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A report released today by Greenpeace International finds that major tech companies Apple, Microsoft and Amazon are burning vast amounts of polluting coal to power their data "clouds."
In the low-latency world of high-frequency trading, some will lose, no matter how smart their systems and people. Can you catch up? Or should we slow them down?
What does all this photo-sharing and status-updating mean for the environment? Well, a lot of energy use, for one.
In our pious zeal to feel better about the mess we're collectively making of the planet, many of us have settled on personal steps to green things up a bit. But are those steps really worthwhile, or just sops to make us feel less guilty?
There's a constant push-pull between what is environmentally "best" and what is economically sensible. So, how to make the world better, and do it in a reasonable way? To start, you should gather information.
Media firms are the early adopters of new tech. You have to love them for taking arrows in the back and mounting themselves on the fireplace alter as trophies.
Social networking giant Facebook has been taking heat from enviros recently for its decision to site a massive new data center in Prineville, Ore. The issue? Coal.
