Koch Industries and Microsoft are corporate names that don’t normally appear in the same headline or sentence. But while the companies are in different markets both have recently made the same bet. And it’s a bet relevant to a vast number of businesses.
"The Cloud Begins with Coal" Author Responds to His Critics: The Breakthrough Institute It’s uncontroversial to note that the global information-communications-technology sector (ICT) uses a lot of electricity. But convert that observation into a per capita form, illustrated, for example, by how many kilowatt-hours an iPhone might use, and protests and invectives sprout up faster…
San Diego Union South of the border, President Enrique Peña Nieto appears to be on track to gain approval from the General Congress of the United Mexican States to reverse decades of tight federal control over the country’s oil and gas resources. Polls in Mexico show citizens favor Peña’s idea 62 percent to 28 percent.
RealClearPolitics — with Sir Tony Brenton Unsurprisingly, oil prices are up in reaction to the Syrian mess. It’s worth keeping in mind that President Putin is at the top of the list of world leaders who benefit from this. The linkage between oil prices and Russia’s revenues cannot be ignored in calibrating what has, and…
“At Apple …100 percent of its server farms and headquarters are on renewables, and they’re on the way to 100 percent for the company.” Former Vice President Al Gore, Washington Post, August 21, 2013
This summer saw another iconic milestone in building out the world’s wireless mobile Internet. Europe’s Arctic Circle is now home to Facebook’s third data center, its first outside the U.S. The one million square foot facility will ultimately use 120 MW.
