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.
“How Green Is The Internet?” was the title for a Google-sponsored Summit early this summer. Al Gore was the keynote, which, along with the title should tell you something.
RealClearEnergy Some anniversaries pass with little fanfare. The Altos, the world’s first personal computer, was invented 40 years ago by Xerox at their Silicon Valley PARC research labs. Seeing it inspired Steve Jobs to create the epoch-changing Mac which led in turn to the proliferation of billions of computers around the globe.
We have recently completed a comprehensive review and analysis of the technical literature relating to the current and future state of electric demand associated with the global information-communications-technology (ICT) ecosystem. Herein a brief overview and summary from our new report.
We are entering an era of big government medicine. Few could claim that ObamaCare hews to the market principles of Adam Smith, or state’s rights, or individual choice. And Silicon Valley’s DNA of unbridled innovation? Not so much.
Real Clear Energy Print publications go out of business because the well of subscribers willing to pay for paper by snail-mail dries up. But it's rare for an on-line publication to close down because the well of ideas and content dries up. But this month the iconic blog The Oil Drum, announcedit's shutting down because of…
