Tag: DATA CENTER

China and IBM are teaming up to build a massive cloud computing and office complex. How massive? According to Computer World, it's the size of an entire city. The new center will cover an estimated 6.2 million square feet, with 646,000 square feet devoted to the data center alone. In total, the complex will be about the size of the Pentagon, though it will be spread out over a comparatively ...

According to officials at Greenpeace, Facebook needs to change its environmentally unfriendly ways. As the AP reports, more than 500,000 users have joined Greenpeace-sponsored groups calling for the social network to use renewable energy to power its new U.S. data center. On Wednesday, Greenpeace International Executive Director Kumi Naidoo sent a letter to CEO Mark Zuckerberg, reminding him that ...

While political candidates and their veeps debate the virtues and woes of off-shore drilling, search monolith Google is pondering another source of wealth able to be situated three to five miles from the coast: your infos. The company has scored a patent for floating data centers that can generate their own power and rely on the constant water temperatures to cool hot CPUs. Google's potential ...

Hot on the heels of Apple pledging to be more green, former computer manufacturer IBM is doing the same. Where Apple talked about reducing toxic wastes generated during the production of its home computers and iPods, IBM is talking about increasing efficiency in its massive collection of worldwide data centers. A data center is basically a building full of computers droning away in ...