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Wikipedia's main page down, article pages loading incorrectly (update: restored)

By Louis Goddard on August 6, 2012 09:54 am + 20 comments

Wikipedia appears to be experiencing severe technical problems, with users around the world unable Continue reading…
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Greenpeace says Apple has 'significantly improved' its clean energy policy

By Aaron Souppouris on July 13, 2012 05:46 am + 19 comments

Greenpeace has given Apple a minor upgrade in its clean power rankings, saying the company has Continue reading…
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Oregon law offers generous tax breaks to data centers

By Amar Toor on May 20, 2012 10:59 pm + 14 comments

A new Oregon law that goes into effect on June 4th is set to provide handsome tax breaks to data Continue reading…
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Apple pledges to power data center entirely with renewable energy by 2013

By Scott Lowe on May 17, 2012 08:28 pm + 28 comments

Apple today announced its plans to power its Maiden, North Carolina data center with solely Continue reading…
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Apple buying energy-efficient Bloom fuel cells to power North Carolina data center

By Adi Robertson on April 30, 2012 02:52 pm + 20 comments

Apple's new data center in North Carolina is trying to minimize its energy footprint with a variety Continue reading…
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Facebook's North Carolina data center goes live

By Jamie Keene on April 20, 2012 01:32 pm + 27 comments

Your statuses, photos, pokes, and likes might now now be served up from North Carolina, as Continue reading…
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Greenpeace says Apple and others use dirty energy to power cloud facilities, Apple disagrees

By T.C. Sottek on April 17, 2012 08:15 pm + 57 comments

Greenpeace released a report today on the "dirty energy" powering cloud data, and says that Apple is Continue reading…
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Fearing Olympic traffic jams, London data center staff will sleep with servers

By Chris Ziegler on April 12, 2012 05:24 pm + 30 comments

During the upcoming Olympic Games, Dutch data center management company Interxion has revealed plans Continue reading…
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Google planning to use thermal storage system in its new Taiwan data center

By Nathan Ingraham on April 4, 2012 08:44 pm + 18 comments

Google is well-known for using creative and green initiatives in its data centers, and its newest Continue reading…
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Solar farms for data centers: better for PR than the environment?

By Dieter Bohn on March 21, 2012 07:48 pm + 4 comments

Giant solar farms used to power equally giant server farms may be popular, but an Amazon engineer J Continue reading…