Monday: August 1, 2011
New report reveals that Google uses roughly 900,000 servers.The good news is that at least those 900,000 servers are the low-power high-efficiency breed of servers that one would expect a company as big as Google to be using. The source article has some other interesting tidbits regarding software that will automate data across multiple data center as well as Google's server expansion plans. Long story short, the number will probably go over a million in the near future.
Thursday: February 25, 2010
Behold the world's greenest skyscraper recently constructed over in China.These types of buildings even have their very own acronym, ZEB, which stands for zero-energy building. This particular building is 58% more energy efficient than your run-of-the-mill conventional skyscraper.
Monday: November 30, 2009
Large hadron collider manages to set brand new world energy record.The previous record of 0.98 trillion electron volts has been held by the Tevatron accelerator since 2001. The LHC is eventually expected to operate at some seven trillion electron volts.
Tuesday: October 27, 2009
A handy list of fifty-five ways in which get more energy.Yes, sometimes laughter can be the best medicine for any occasion, including getting a much-needed boost of energy. I mean, just look at the cat in the thumbnail - he's having a great time.
Friday: September 11, 2009
Eight signs that you're an energy-hogging jerk.If you refuse to turn off your computer, take long hot showers, leave the TV on, idle your car, crank up the AC, leave the fridge open too long, use unneccesary lighting equipment and/or drink bottled water then you are a jerk.
Thursday: September 10, 2009
Google looking into new type of mirror for cheaper solar energy.Google hopes to have a viable technology to show internally in a couple of months, Weihl said. It will need to do accelerated testing to show the impact of decades of wear on the new mirrors in desert conditions.
Monday: July 6, 2009
Yahoo's next data center to be powered by Niagara Falls?Western New York has been courting big data centres thanks to the relatively cheap electricity it can generate from Niagara Falls, and was disappointed last year when HSBC pulled the plug on a $139m, 275,000 square foot data centre that was to open in nearby Cambria, New York.
Tuesday: June 23, 2009
Wind power could theoretically yield forty times more than the current global electricity use.The numbers that come out of the analysis are quite impressive: maxing out deployment of current-generation technology could produce five times the total energy used in the world today, and 40 times the electricity.