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DOE: $50 Million for Fuel-Efficient Vehicle Technology

January 24, 2014January 24, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

The US Department of Energy has made available about $50 million to accelerate research and development of new vehicle technologies that give drivers and businesses more transportation options and protect the environment. The funding will support a wide range of technologies that further cut fuel costs for drivers and help ... Read more »

100% Wind Power for Facebook Iowa Data Center

November 15, 2013 by Leon Walker

When Facebook‘s forthcoming data center in Altoona, Iowa, goes online in early 2015, the social networking giant expects it to be supplied by 100 percent renewable energy – as tracked by renewable energy certificates – from a wind project in nearby Wellsburg, Iowa. Facebook started working on this project with RPM Access, ... Read more »

Always-On Wireless Devices: a 30M Ton Carbon Problem

August 22, 2013August 22, 2013 by Leon Walker

Wireless networks with 24/7 access are becoming energy consuming monsters and wireless computing will lead to 30 million tons of carbon emissions by 2015, The Guardian reports. Cloud-based applications from data centers managed by Google, Facebook, Amazon and Apple help create more efficiency, but they also drive a paradigm shift ... Read more »

Best Strategies For Low Carbon Data Centers

July 12, 2013 by Paul Nastu

Best practices such as using the most energy efficient equipment, consolidating applications and masking the identity of servers from its users will enable higher utilization of each server’s computing capacity and a lower carbon foot print for data centers, says an article published in the journal Nature Climate Change. Data ... Read more »

Facebook GHGs Up 35% in 2012

July 2, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Facebook’s greenhouse gas emissions totaled about 384,000 metric tons of CO2e in 2012 — a 35 percent increase from the year prior — according to the company’s annual report on carbon emissions and energy use. This includes GHGs from data centers, office space, employee commuting and air travel, data center ... Read more »

Facebook Taps Hydroelectric Energy For Swedish Data Center

June 17, 2013 by Paul Nastu

Facebook announced that its newest data center in Lulea, Sweden, on the edge of the Arctic Circle, which will handle live traffic from around the world, will be powered by hydroelectric energy so reliable that it has been able to reduce the number of backup generators required at the site by more than 70 ... Read more »

Environmental Executive Moves: IHS, WWF, Codexis, Environ

June 7, 2013June 6, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Here’s the latest news on hirings, promotions and departures among environmental leaders. IHS: Scott Key (pictured) is now president and CEO of the information and analytics company. Key was also elected to the IHS board of directors, effective June 1, and per the company’s planned CEO succession former chairman and ... Read more »

106 Organizations Use Climate Corps Fellows This Summer

May 23, 2013 by Linda Hardesty

The Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) has kicked off its sixth and largest season of EDF Climate Corps, placing 116 Climate Corps fellows in 106 organizations, including new participants such as Apple, Colgate-Palmolive, General Motors, and the cities of Austin and Philadelphia. These organizations will join returning hosts including AT&T, Facebook, ... Read more »

Facebook Plans $1 Billion Iowa Data Center

April 24, 2013April 23, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Facebook is planning to build a $1 billion data center in Altoona, Iowa, that experts are predicting will be the world’s “most technologically advanced,” reports The Des Moines Register. The 1.4 million-sq-foot facility is expected to be built in two $500 million stages. The Register says that when completely built out, the ... Read more »

Forget Data Centers, Wireless Cloud is Real Energy Hog, says Report

April 16, 2013 by Leon Walker

Insatiable demand for popular online applications on the go has created a “sustainability time bomb” for cloud services, according to researchers from Australia’s University of Melbourne. The Power of Wireless Cloud, published by the university’s Centre for Energy Efficient Telecommunications, warns that industry has vastly underestimated energy consumption across the cloud ecosystem as ... Read more »

Facebook’s Green-Roofed ‘Hobbit Hole’ Gets Green Light

April 1, 2013April 1, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Facebook has received approval to build its green-roofed, Frank Gehry-designed second campus in Menlo Park, Calif. The Menlo Park City Council voted last week to allow the social network giant to move ahead with its plans for the 433,555-square-foot building. The new campus will connect with Facebook’s current headquarters via ... Read more »

IBM Mobile App to Help Solve Water Challenges

March 25, 2013March 25, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

IBM has launched a crowdsourcing project to help capture, share and analyze information about the water distribution system in South Africa. The project, called WaterWatchers, is driven by a free mobile phone application and SMS capability that will enable South African citizens to report water leaks, faulty water pipes and ... Read more »

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