and documents, for years in a completely secure, state of the art data centre located in Utah. Â The joy of old age (no kidding) Oliver Sacks New york times 6 july 2013 On turning 80."
Google throws open doors to its top-secret data center Steven Levy Wired 17 october 2012 A visit to the beating heart of the digital age.
with the manure from their cows possibly powering the vast data centers of companies like Google and Microsoft.
10,000 cows could fuel a 1mw data center, the equivalent of a computing center used by a bank.
Computers, cellular networks and data centers are connected to the destruction of over 600 square miles of forest in the U s. because of their ravenous consumption of electricity.
Greenpeace estimates that by 2020 data centers will demand more electricity than is demanded currently by France
According to the U s. Department of energy, the electricity consumed by data centers in the United states doubled from 2000 to 2006, reaching more than 60 billion kilowatt hours per year,
Ultimately, the lack of information centers around the fact that terra preta is old and biochar, well,
Achieving more streamline data storage in the future will require de-duplication specialists who can rid our data centers of needless copies
Achieving more streamline data storage in the future will require de-duplication specialists who can rid our data centers of needless copies and frivolous clutter. 75.
About 95 percent of tornadoes in the United states are EF2S or below according to the National Climatic Data center.
The North Central Sustainable agriculture Research and Education (SARE) program and the Conservation Technology Information center conducted the survey of more than 759 commercial farmers from winter 2012 through spring 2013.
and a scientist with the National Climatic Data center said in an email. Vegetation is gone in many places leaving bare soil
Thomas Karl, who is currently the director of NOAA's National Climatic Data center, will head the programme,
says Eugene Wahl, a palaeoclimatologist at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric administration's National Climatic Data center in Boulder,
analysis from NOAA's National Climatic Data center in Asheville, North carolina. Spill science scarce The presidential commission investigating last year's huge oil spill in the Gulf of mexico has called for more science in federal decisions on oil production and spill response.
which is 1. 1 °C above the twentieth-century average, according to the National Climatic Data center at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric administration (NOAA) in Silver Spring, Maryland.
The National Climatic Data center in Asheville, North carolina, said on 16  July that moderate to extreme drought was affecting 55%of the continental United states  the highest proportion since December 1956.
nsidcarctic sea-ice coverage reached the lowest point of this year s summer melt on 16 Â September, the US National Snow and Ice Data center in Boulder,
under the measurement system used by the data centre. The new low is by far the smallest figure seen in 33 years of satellite measurements and possibly the lowest late-summer ice extent in more than 5, 000 Â years
The US National Snow and Ice Data center in Boulder, Colorado, said that the data indicate"a more pronounced seasonal cycle
when ice cover fell to 5. 1 Â million square kilometres, the US National Snow and Ice Data center in Boulder,
and must do so on the Internet, for example in public data repositories. Some exceptions are allowed, for instance in cases in
And yet according to the NOAA National Climatic Data center http://www. ncdc. noaa. gov/oa/climate/globalwarming. html âÂ#Âoeour understanding of the indirect effects of changes
Alarming NOAA data Rapid Pole Shift Posted Jan 11 2012january 15 2011 at 1: 53 pm (PT)- The NOAA National Geophysical Data center maintains a data set
Or worse the myriad of data centers running servers (like the cloud. These data centers run on electricity 24/7
and with more and more people relying on them to hold their photos music etc they will continue to get bigger and consumer more energy.
On the U s. maps each gold point represents one of the 4451 U s. weather stations that has been recording temperatures for at least 30 years the length of time the National Climatic Data center uses as its standard for establishing a record.
The data for all these visualizations comes from the National Climatic Data center. This is what pisses me off about statistics...
the computing efficiency of IT (information technology) data center equipment like servers storage and network switches; the amount of electricity a data center's building uses for things other than computing primarily cooling;
and how much of the center's electricity comes from renewable or low-carbon sources. Adding renewable power to the mix can help reduce a data center's overall emissions by 98 percent
when combined with other strategies but renewables are not the first choice for reducing emissions the analysis shows.
Of these three improving the efficiency of the IT devices is overwhelmingly the most important said Jonathan Koomey a co-author of the study Characteristics of Low-Carbon Data centers published online June 25 in Nature Climate Change.
whose business primarily is cloud computing have solved the sustainability problem for data centers. In addition to Google and Facebook companies like Amazon ebay and Expedia have instituted most
and pressure from environmental organizations. ebay even discloses its data center efficiency publicly at dse. ebay. com. These companies were hearing a lot of noise from Greenpeace and others.
Data centers consume about 1. 5 percent of the world's electricity and are responsible for about 0. 5 percent of carbon emissions.
After IT equipment the second major way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions associated with data centers is to improve the efficiency of the buildings that support them.
State-of-the-art data centers have reduced the ratio to about 1 to 0. 1 kwh said study co-author Arman Shehabi of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Environmental Energy Technologies Division.
and solar power plus green handling of retired equipment can get a typical data center's emissions down 98 percent.
For data centers as for all uses of energy efficiency is always the first thing to do. It's cheapest
So high-energy data centers that pay their utilities a premium for renewable power unnecessarily tie up low-carbon electrons that might otherwise be used to reduce emissions from other customers.
It also maintains the National Invasive Species Information center. Noxious weeds on federal or state lists and invasive weeds are defined generally as plants with adverse social economic or ecological effects.
and archived and distributed by the World Data centre for Greenhouse Gases (WDCGG) at the Japan Meteorological Agency.
and are stored in various data repositories in reusable format. Such wide availability of data helps for mistakes
The National Climatic Data center estimated that yearâ##s U s. crop damage at $30 billion. In a recent study scientists used ARID to predict crop yields by quantifying water loss for cotton soybeans corn
Ted Scambos, a glaciologist at the National Snow and Ice Data center (NSIDC) in Boulder, Colorado, tells National geographic:
has A LOT OF data centers to its name. The buyout actually increased the company's total operations footprint by almost 50 percent
We know that data centers consume their share of energy, but is this offset or compensated by the natural resources not consumed?
It s no secret that data centers ââ oe especially those run by social networking leaders such as Google
These providers are even taking care to make sure that they build their latest and greatest data centers within range of hydroelectric power sources.
and many across the industry are pressing data center operators and solutions providers to go green,
Facebook plans Subarctic data center Iceland cometh
GE Water sustainability chief Jeff Fulgham: We need a price on waterwhy doesn't water get more attention?
shared data centers or stadium-sized recreational facilities that can be shared by tenants and the public. oethe building owner can perform hacks as incentives for existing tenants to remain,
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