Turning poop into power: Microsoft building innovative data center to test clean power resource strategies

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Think about human waste inside of a toilet. Yes, I know, gross. Now, think about power for a data center. Two completely separate entities, right? Not to Microsoft, a company that believes the bond between the two could mean cleaner power resources for its massive data centers. The Redmond-based software giant announced today that it… Read More…

Apple breaks ground on giant Northwest data center

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Construction has begun on Apple’s 338,000-square-foot, $68 million data-center building in Prineville, Ore. — the first of two giant structures planned for the property. The Oregonian reports that Apple has cleared and flattened land for the building, which will be twice the size of a Costco warehouse. Apple’s facility sits right across from Facebook’s equally-large data… Read More…