Tag: Microsoft
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3 Tech Companies Using Renewables to Combat Data Center Energy Crisis
It takes a lot of energy to enable web users to stream videos, downloads books and other online activities—about the same amount it would take to power 30 nuclear power plants. Data centers around the world use about 30 gigawatts, or 30 billion watts of electricity, according to Green House Data. U.S. data centers account…
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Earth day 2013
For the past several years, I’ve used Earth Day as an opportunity to look at Microsoft’s progress on environmental sustainability issues over the past 12 months and where we are headed in the year to come. The most significant progress to report is around Microsoft’s work to achieve carbon neutrality in our current fiscal year.…
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City of the future
One of the biggest contributors to greenhouses gases in the U.S. is what you’d least expect — commercial buildings. In fact, the office you’re reading this blog post in right now may have as much of an environmental impact as your commute to work today. Commercial buildings are responsible for nearly 20 percent of U.S.…
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City of the future
One of the biggest contributors to greenhouses gases in the U.S. is what you’d least expect — commercial buildings. In fact, the office you’re reading this blog post in right now may have as much of an environmental impact as your commute to work today. Commercial buildings are responsible for nearly 20 percent of U.S.…
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Green Power Superstars: Intel, Kohl’s, Microsoft
Intel, Kohl’s and Microsoft are the nation’s top purchasers of green power, according to this year’s Top 50 Green-Powered Organizations list from the EPA. Thank you for your interest in this story. To read the rest of it, please visit EarthTechling. …