Category: Green corporations

Telehouse pledges 100% renewable power for London facility

| December 9, 2011 | 0 Comments

Data centre and telecoms facility operator Telehouse has pledged to use 100% renewable energy to power its London Docklands site.
The site, which houses the IT infrastructure of almost 500 major international organisations, will now purchase 100% of its energy from UK renewable energy provider, SmartestEnergy.
According to Telehouse, SmartestEnergy buys energy from independent generators from around [...]

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Google calls it quits on renewable energy initiative

| November 24, 2011 | 0 Comments

Google has called it quits on its high profile RE>C, or Renewable Energy Cheaper than Coal, initiative, citing engineering challenges and the fact that the renewable energy sector has made enough progress that it can now leave it to others to further research in the area.
“We’ve reached a point in our engineering projects where we’re [...]

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Cloud software could increase building efficiency, save millions of dollars

| October 16, 2011 | 0 Comments

First published in Communications Day
A pilot program conducted at Microsoft’s Seattle campus has shown that intelligent building solutions using cloud-based software can be achieved with 10% of a building’s annual energy expenditure, offering a ROI period of 18 months.
The program was implemented in 13 of Microsoft’s 118 buildings on its campus, and carried out by [...]

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Verne Global’s Iceland facility goes live, signs first customer

| October 9, 2011 | 0 Comments
Verne Global’s Iceland facility goes live, signs first customer

Verne Global, the UK-based firm building a wholesale data centre facility in Iceland, says it is now officially open for business.
Services are available from the company’s 18-hectacre campus in Kelfavik, Iceland, a location with key operating advantages that providers well over 50% cost savings over traditional data centres in Europe or New York, the company [...]

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AT&T goes for green packaging

| September 18, 2011 | 0 Comments

AT&T says it will go with greener packaging for its branded accessories. The new packaging will be composed of up to 30 percent plant-based materials sourced from ethanol harvested from natural sugarcane.
The sugarcane used is this plant plastic is a rapidly renewable agricultural crop and replaces nearly a third of the fossil fuels traditionally [...]

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ITU calls for ICT GHG emissions measurement methodology by year-end

| September 18, 2011 | 0 Comments

An ITU meeting in Rome is calling for the establishment of international standards for GHG measurement by the end of this year.
The first ever ITU Green Standards Week, head in early September, held a particular emphasis on a globalised methodology for assessing the environmental impact of ICTs globally.
“ITU has been working with industry and government [...]

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Korean firms top latest Dow Jones Sustainability Index’s ‘Supersectors’ for Technology, Telecoms

| September 10, 2011 | 0 Comments

South Korea’s KT Corp. and Samsung Electronics have top their respective ‘Supersectors’ in the latest Dow Jones Sustainability Index.
The annual ranking of publicly-listed companies based on their investment return and sustainable performance combines evaluations from the Dow Jones Global Total Stock Market and corporate sustainability assessment conducted by sustainability investing firm, SAM.
In addition to laying [...]

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Google’s environmental performance and the CO2 we all spend on web searches

| September 9, 2011 | 0 Comments
Google’s environmental performance and the CO2 we all spend on web searches

In the same week Google revealed the environmental profile of its Gmail service, the search engine giant also released details of its overall corporate environmental performance the year 2010.
According to Google, it recorded a total of 1,457,982 metric tons of CO2 equivalent for the year 2010. This includes 11,126 metric tons of CO2e for direct [...]

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Calculating Gmail’s energy, environmental savings

| September 9, 2011 | 0 Comments
Calculating Gmail’s energy, environmental savings

Google has released the energy and environmental performance figures for its Gmail service in a bid to entice businesses to take on the cloud-based email platform.
According to Google, when compared to on-site email server installations, Gmail now offers significant energy, thus carbon, savings.
“We compared Gmail to the traditional enterprise email solutions it’s replaced for more [...]

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Dell to revamp sustainability strategy in move to cloud

| September 9, 2011 | 0 Comments
Dell to revamp sustainability strategy in move to cloud

Dell Computer is looking to revamp its sustainability strategies as it moves into offering compute resources via the cloud, instead of simply selling physical servers to its customers. According to the company’s latest CSR report, it needs to update how it measures its carbon performance to align with its cloud strategy.
Earlier this month, Dell launched [...]

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