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Yahoo! has said it will no longer purchase carbon offsets for its operations, focusing its climate strategy on reducing the energy used by its data centres. The move reverses the company’s 2007 announcement that it would invest in carbon-offset projects in order to become carbon neutral.

“Reducing our carbon footprint has always been a priority and we’ve decided to focus all our energy and investment on that philosophy,” said David Filo, the company’s co-founder and Chief Yahoo. “We believe creating highly-efficient data centres will have a greater long-term, direct impact on the environment and gives us the best opportunity to play a leadership role in addressing climate change.”

Source: Green Business

Micro-blogging service Twitter was abuzz with tweets following a hotly disputed weekend presidential election in Iran, causing NTT America, which provides hosting for Twitter, to delay a critical network upgrade because of Twitter’s important role in bypassing the government’s attempts to silence traditional news reports.

The originally scheduled for Monday evening to make space for traffic increases over the past few months, Twitter requested the network capacity upgrade more than 7,000 miles away from the election at its San Jose facility to be delayed. Twitter co-founder Biz Stone said in a blog post that NTT readily cooperated, having recognized Twitter’s important role in Iran at that time. It postponed the upgrade until Tuesday afternoon.

Source: The WHIR