News: Yahoo redesigns data center, ditches carbon offsets by Tom Krazit, CNET News June 30, 2009 Yahoo thinks its plan for a new data center could eventually help the company achieve carbon-neutral status without having to resort to the purchase of carbon offsets. Yahoo designed its forthcoming data center to let outside air cool the [...]
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News: Spain plugs in largest solar-tower power plant by Martin LaMonica, CNET News April 28, 2009 At Abengoa Solar’s facility in Spain, mirrors heat a liquid in a tower, on right, that produces steam to make up to 20 megawatts of electricity. Abengoa Solar of Spain on Monday reported successful tests of its second solar [...] News: Oracle to buy Sun in $7.4 billion deal by Jonathan Skillings, CNET News April 20, 2009 This story has been updated. See below for details. Oracle, not IBM, will be buying Sun Microsystems. Oracle and Sun announced Monday that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Oracle will acquire Sun common stock [...] Sempra Generation on Wednesday said it has signed a deal for the United States’ largest photovoltaic power plant, a 48-megawatt solar farm to be built by First Solar in Nevada. A123Systems receives $69 million from GE, others by Dawn Kawamoto – CNET News April 13, 2009 12:21 PM PDT Lithium ion battery company A123Systems has received a $69 million investment round from General Electric and others, the company announced Monday. With its latest funding, A123Systems plans to expand its facilities in Massachusetts and Michigan, as [...] Report: Google, Microsoft court Twitter by Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal Thursday, April 9, 2009 Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp. are both courting microblogging service Twitter Inc. because of its search ad revenue potential, according to a report Thursday. A Wall Street Journal blog reported that many experts think Twitter’s instant 140-character format [...] Yahoo partners with UC Berkeley, other universities on cloud computing By San Francisco Business Times Thursday, April 9, 2009 Yahoo Inc. on Thursday announced partnerships with universities to advance cloud computing research. The University of California at Berkeley, Cornell University and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst will join Carnegie Mellon University in using Sunnyvale-based [...] One of the world’s biggest photovoltaic projects is planned for southwest Florida. Florida Power & Light will spend $350 million to build a 75-megawatt photovoltaic solar plant at a planned city, Babcock Ranch, near Fort Myers, the company announced Thursday. |
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