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Wednesday, September 30, 2009 4:00 PM

New Chicago Data Center One of World’s Largest to use Containers

Microsoft is celebrating the grand opening of our new Chicago data center today.  The 700,000 square feet  facility will help Live, Online and Cloud Computing services offerings for customers throughout North America.  In a post on the
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Monday, September 28, 2009 5:50 PM

The Climate Mystery

On Sept 15th, in partnership with Congin, we launched “ The Climate Mystery ”. F or students, The Climate Mystery is an exciting online story that they and their fellow students can experience together as they learn about the global climate challenges.
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Friday, September 25, 2009 7:11 PM

Achieving Climate Sustainability - Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Bill Gail from Microsoft wrote a very interesting article that was just published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. Here’s the abstract: It is often assumed that climate change policies, including the Kyoto Protocol and the follow-on
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Thursday, September 24, 2009 4:28 PM

Microsoft Partners with Carbon Disclosure Project to build Climate Change Data and Reporting Platform

Today at the Clinton Global Initiative in New York, Microsoft and the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) announced the creation of the next generation online solution for the CDP’s global climate change data system. Microsoft will provide its software platform
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Thursday, September 24, 2009 3:16 PM

Microsoft’s New Ireland Data Center Using Outside Air to Cool the Facility and Drive Energy Efficiency

Today Microsoft had a grand opening for its latest data center located in Dublin, Ireland which was built to deliver Online, Live and Cloud Services to customers throughout the world. With the demand of Cloud services such as Bing, Windows Live, and the
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Tuesday, September 22, 2009 9:50 PM

Delivery & Smart Grid Solutions

Microsoft and our partners are preparing for the increasing sophistication and automation of the grid, including the entry of a new type of energy consumer who is also an energy producer and source of stored energy. Indeed, industry visionaries believe
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Monday, September 21, 2009 9:55 PM

Microsoft’s Carbon Disclosure Project 2009 Report is now available

The Carbon Disclosure Project launched the 2009 Reports today at New York Climate Week. Since 2004, Microsoft has voluntarily responded to the annual CDP request—providing the public with valuable insight into our environmental sustainability efforts.
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Monday, September 21, 2009 5:46 PM

Podcast: Stop pampering your processors!

Christian Belady from Microsoft’s Global Foundation Services team was recently interviewed by InsideHPC's John West on this topic and can be listened to at: http://insidehpc.com/green-hpc-podcast-series/green-hpc-podcast-episode-4-stop-pampering-your-processors/
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Monday, September 14, 2009 4:43 PM

Microsoft Builds a Green Campus to Save Costs and Reduce Carbon Footprint

As a follow-up to the opening of our Redmond Ridge computer lab last week I wanted to share details of another case study for incorporating environmental sustainability into the construction and operation of Microsoft’s expanded campus in China. The project
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Wednesday, September 09, 2009 10:37 PM

Microsoft’s new R&D Support Lab helps move servers to more energy efficient facility

Microsoft recently opened Redmond Ridge 1, the company’s first purpose-built Research and Development Support (R&DS) facility designed specifically to consolidate computer labs from the main Redmond campus and house servers used in the development
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Wednesday, September 09, 2009 5:49 AM

Announcing System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R3

I’m excited to announce details of the of our plan to release System Center Configuration Manager 2007 R3 which will include some important new power management features that can help maximize power policies across the organization. Our approach is based
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Thursday, September 03, 2009 6:10 PM

Efficiency & Environmental Impact Research by Jonathan Koomey

Intel and Microsoft released a series of unique research studies, co-written by Jonathan Koomey visiting professor at Yale’s School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and an expert in energy conservation technology, economics, policy and global climate
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Tuesday, September 01, 2009 4:53 PM

Microsoft & The Environment – twitter updates

I just realized that I haven’t posted a blog entry in a while so i thought that I’d give a quick update by recapping some of our latest updates via twitter. You can follow Microsoft’s environmental sustainability efforts at http://twitter.com/Microsoft_Green
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