Video: The arrival of technology-laden EVs promises to empower and liberate car fleet managers in ways they could only just imagine a few short years ago. Just ask Rolf Schreiber, Google’s Electric Transportation Manager. As you know, Google is big on cleantech. And one of the ways it promotes this is by keeping a fleet [...]
Read more OnStar app brings cloud-based EV fleet management to Google
That’s approximately the amount of power required to keep Google’s data centers running. As this NYT piece mentions, all those searches, Gmail accounts, YouTube videos and tons of other services continually absorb 260 million watts, or about a quarter of the output of one nuclear power plant. There are two important things to note from this [...]
Read more Stat of the day: 260 million watts
It’s that time. Before we welcome a brand new year, here are 2010′s most popular posts according to you! 1. Stats of the Day: BP Oil Spill Google Results Back in June, I ran a little experiment. In terms of Google search results, how did BP’s recent oil spill compare against the previous top environmental [...]
Thin client adoption is picking up, improving the fortunes of startups like NComputing and prodding vendors to revamp their product portfolios. Sales of energy-efficient, TCO-lowering thin client hardware is expected to double to 7.4 million by 2014 from 2010′s scant 3.7 million units, according to IDC. Can Google and Citrix get in on the action [...]
Read more Google Chrome OS and Citrix: Advent of the thinner, mobile enterprise?
I’ve been waiting for Google to make some (preferably Green IT) news in my home state of New Jersey, and it’s finally happening. Well, sort of, if you count the waters off our coast. Google today announced that the company will be backing an offshore wind project called the Atlantic Wind Connection off the New [...]
Silly Cisco, you didn’t expect to own smart grid networking did you? GigaOM’s Katie Fehrenbacher has a great post today on how IT rivalries, particularly the one between Cisco and Juniper, are spilling into the smart grid space. Already, Google and Microsoft are tackling the home energy management market with PowerMeter and Hohm, respectively. Now, [...]
Read more IT rivalries spill onto the smart grid
To be honest, I have yet to fully wrap my head around the Google and Verizon net neutrality business (I generally leave that to smarter folks). But it looks like I may have to change my attitude. In this intriguing article that sailed across my Twitter stream today, Sustainablog’s Jeff McIntire-Strasburg explores “Why Net Neutrality [...]
As of today, these are the number of Google search results (general Web, not News, Images, Blogs, etc.) for the BP oil spill versus the Exxon Valdez oil spill. As you can see below, BP is catching up to…
Bloom Energy Server, eBay Installation – Credit: Bloom Energy Bloom Energy’s fuel cell is making waves this week, starting with a 60 Minutes profile and culminating in today’s official coming out party. (FYI: My colleague Katie at Earth2Tech has some…
Read more Cleantech + IT = Bloom Energy Server
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