Posted by: Dedicated Servers in Uncategorized, tags: Carbon Footprint, Change Source, Chief Yahoo, Climate Change, Co Founder, David Filo, Efficiency, Favour, Invest, Leadership Role, Philosophy, Priority, Purchase Carbon Offsets, Yahoo
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
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Posted by: Dedicated Servers in Uncategorized, tags: 5 Million, City Water, Dollar Project, Economy, Federal Lawmakers, Intuit, Massive Data, microsoft, Midst, Money Microsoft, Recycled Water, Server Farms, Sq Ft, Water Reclamation Facility, Yahoo
Two years after Microsoft began operating a data centre in Quincy, the city is in the midst of a multi-million-dollar project to bring recycled water to the facility. Although the city water reclamation project is costly — estimated at US$9 million — the first phase is being built with a US$4.5 million grant from the state. And the city has appealed to federal lawmakers for rest of the money.
Microsoft’s 474,000 sq ft building on 75 acres is one of three massive data centres in Quincy. Yahoo and Intuit also bought land and built large server farms. This winter, Sabey bought about 40 acres of land in Quincy and will break ground this summer on a data centre. Eventually, the city wants to provide recycled water to the three data centres there, and any others that sprout up. When complete, the water reclamation facility will be able to treat up to 5 million gallons a day.
Source: Wenatchee World
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Yahoo data centre planned for New York
State officials are working with Internet giant Yahoo to establish a data centre in Western New York. The centre would house computer systems and other equipment. State officials say it wouldn’t result in many jobs, but the symbolism of luring the big-name company could help with other economic development efforts.
Gov. David Paterson asked the New York Power Authority to come up with a low-cost power plan for Yahoo to lure them to the Buffalo area. The company has been expanding its number of data centres around the country.
Source: Wall Street Journal
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