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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

Microsoft banks on Texas wind power

November 9, 2013 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

Microsoft Wind Power

A new wind farm is going up in Texas, and Microsoft had a hand in making it happen. The company, no stranger to renewable energy and green computing programs, agreed to purchase all of the electricity generated by the Keechi Wind Farm Project for 20 years. The wind farm, located roughly 70 miles northwest of Fort […]

Filed Under: Cleantech & Renewable Energy Tagged With: Microsoft, renewable energy, renewables, wind, wind power

Intel, Microsoft among top green energy buyers

April 25, 2012 by Pedro Hernandez Leave a Comment

Wind turbine

A couple of IT companies made a strong showing on the EPA’s National Top 50 list of renewable energy buyers. According to the EPA, companies qualify for inclusion by meeting the following conditions: Organizations can meet EPA Partnership requirements using any combination of three different product options: (1) Renewable Energy Certificates, (2) On-site generation, and (3) […]

Filed Under: Cleantech & Renewable Energy Tagged With: Intel, Microsoft, renewable energy, renewables

REN21: Renewables make up nearly 20 percent of global energy production

July 28, 2011 by Pedro Hernandez 2 Comments

Where in the world?! Before we get to all those juicy statistics, REN21 came through with a little tech for infoporn addicts by debuting an online Renewables Interactive Map to coincide with the release of the group’s Renewables 2011 Global Status Report. As with all good interactive maps, it’s infinitely clickable and searchable. As a […]

Filed Under: Stats & Figures Tagged With: renewable energy, renewables, report, statistics, stats

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