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Jeff Bezos christens new Amazon wind farm

October 20, 2017 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

Jeff Bezos on a wind turbine

Enjoy this tweet and accompanying video of Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos smashing a bottle atop a new wind turbine with some sweeping (drone?) footage.

Filed Under: Cleantech & Renewable Energy, Environment, Green IT Tagged With: amazon, Jeff Bezos, renewable energy, wind turbines

IT industry isn’t following U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Accord

June 3, 2017 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

Trump may have withdrawn the U.S. from the Paris Accord, but many technology giants, along with some American cities and states, aren’t following suit. Here’s a selection of encouraging tweets: Disappointed with today’s decision. Google will keep working hard for a cleaner, more prosperous future for all. — Sundar Pichai (@sundarpichai) June 1, 2017 We believe climate […]

Filed Under: Environment Tagged With: amazon, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Paris Accord, Paris Agreement, Salesforce.com

Amazon looks to the solar to power its cloud

June 10, 2015 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

Some neat news from my colleague Jeffrey Burt over at eWEEK today… Amazon is working with Community Energy to build an 80-megawatt solar farm in Virginia to help power its Amazon Web Services (AWS) data centers in Virginia. Jeffrey writes: The solar farm—which will be built in Accomack County, Va., and will power up as early as October […]

Filed Under: Cleantech & Renewable Energy, Cloud Computing, Data Center Tagged With: amazon, cloud, Cloud Computing, Data Center, renewable energy, renewables

Despite green advances, cloud data centers dogged by dirty diesel

September 23, 2012 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

data center servers

Cloud services providers are making enormous strides in data center efficiency. Take, for instance, Microsoft. “Today, Microsoft delivers more than 200 online services to 1+ billion customers and 20 million businesses in over 76 markets worldwide,” posts Brian Janous, Utility Architect, Data Center Advanced Development, at the Microsoft Global Foundations Services Blog. And that takes a lot of […]

Filed Under: Data Center, Green IT Tagged With: amazon, Cloud Computing, Data Center, data center cooling, diesel backup generators, Microsoft, PUE, water

Digital Gift Guide 2011

December 8, 2011 by Pedro Hernandez 1 Comment

This holiday, why not try giving more with less by dematerializing your gifts? Essentially, dematerialization is the digitization of items, mostly media like books, music and video games (that’s a hint of what to expect on this list). These works, now freed from physical media — at least on the consumer end since they still […]

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Filed Under: Featured, Gadgets & Mobile Tagged With: amazon, cloud, dematerialization, ebook, gift guide, green gifts, guide, Spotify, Valve

Amazon’s Kindle lending feature is a go

December 30, 2010 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

Talk about coming in under the wire. Amazon’s promise to activate a Nook-like 14-day lending feature on its bestselling Kindle e-reader before year’s end  has been kept, just barely. (I’d like to think that my protestations played a part, but who am I kidding.) Now you too can loan someone a Kindle e-book that’s been […]

Filed Under: Gadgets & Mobile Tagged With: amazon, e-books, ebook, Kindle

Kindle tops Amazon’s bestseller list

December 27, 2010 by Pedro Hernandez 1 Comment

It takes some doing to unseat the final Hogwarts adventure, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, as Amazon’s top selling item in its history. And its own Kindle 3 e-reader was just the gadget to do it. In what’s become tradition, Amazon is once again reporting gangbusters sales of its Kindle e-reader. This is in […]

Filed Under: Featured, Gadgets & Mobile Tagged With: amazon, Apple, e-books, e-readers, ebook, ereaders, iPad, Kindle, Mirasol display, Qualcomm

Green gift guide 2010: Five last-minute green gadget ideas

December 16, 2010 by Pedro Hernandez 1 Comment

In case you haven’t noticed, the clock is ticking on getting your 2010 holiday shopping done. Here are some great last-minute gift ideas that are still in stock (at least of this writing) and are sure to delight the green geek in your life. Curl up with a good e-book this Christmas: Amazon Kindle Smaller, […]

Filed Under: Gadgets & Mobile Tagged With: amazon, Apple, Gadgets, gift guide, green gadgets, guide, Kindle, LED lighting, LivingColors, media streaming, Netflix, Philips, streaming

Best Buy to sell Kindle

September 9, 2010 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

Score another brick and mortar victory for Amazon. Best Buy has announced that it will start selling the Kindle this Fall starting with the 3G an Wi-Fi versions. It’s an interesting turn of events considering that Best Buy also offers Barnes & Noble’s Nook, making it the first physical location where both e-readers will presumably […]

Filed Under: Gadgets & Mobile Tagged With: amazon, Best Buy, Kindle

Kindle’s kinder to the environment

August 25, 2010 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

Are e-readers really all that much better for the environment than books? The answer to that question is a resounding yes, at least according to Cleantech. The numbers break down thusly: A typical book has a 7.5 kilograms (~17 pounds) of carbon footprint. The iPad’s weighs in at 130 kilograms. The Kindle is estimated to […]

Filed Under: Gadgets & Mobile Tagged With: amazon, carbon footprint, e-books, e-readers, iPad, Kindle

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