Google's Data Centres at sea could benefit the environment

Google has announced that it is to build another data centre in Iowa. It'll cost around $300 million. The data centre will be located in Council Bluffs, and will mean that Google has invested a total of $900 million in the city....

Google is reportedly all set to kick start the construction of a large antenna farm in Iowa. The new infrastructure, according to reports, will be primarily aimed at boosting the tech giant's plans to dish out its own high speed...

In an attempt to expand its presence in Asian markets, Google has announced plans to open a new data centre in Singapore. Singapore, which serves as the headquarters for Google's Asia Pacific operations, will be home to the new...

Advertising giant Google has officially begun construction of its first Asia-Pacific data centre, located on the Tseung Kwan O Industrial Estate in Hong Kong's Kowloon. Acquired back in September, the 2.7-hectare site will be...

Dell has built a new modular data centre to help Microsoft process images for its Bing Maps service.The microsite, located in Boulder, California, will provide image processing support to Microsoft’s StreetSide,...

HP has launched its new data containerised data centre EcoPod, a move by the company that will provide it with the same sort of high efficiency that other market leaders like Google, Facebook etc. usually able to derive from...

Apple’s new massive data centre at North Carolina has finally made its debut appearance on Google Earth, but the mystery about what took Google so long to display this mammoth-sized infrastructure continues.The exact...

According to new reports, Google is going to use sea water for cooling the new Data Centre at Finland, a move that is expected to take the cooling efficiencies to an entirely new height.The Finland data centre, which used to be a...

Google has straight away rejected all the charges brought upon it about the recent updates in its much vaunted Panda page rank algorithm system being hostile towards its rivals. The company claimed that it regularly updated its...

Social networking giant Facebook has announced plans to build a $450 million data centre in North Carolina. The centre, which will be built in Forest City, is expected to generate 250 jobs during the construction phase and...

Intel and several other major global companies have formed the Open Data Centre Alliance, aimed that developing unified standards to aid the industry wide roll-out of cloud-based technology. The 70 global giants, which include...

In an attempt to expand its cloud computing services and user base, International Business Machines (IBM) has announced that the company will be opening a new data center in North Carolina, USA, which will be focused solely on...

The Scottish council of Dumfries and Galloway has received documents related to a £800 million data centre that could create up to 1000 new jobs in the region. The plans for the huge project were submitted by the Lockerbie...

IT Firm Alchemy Plus and Microsoft are coming together to build a £20 million "cloud computing" data centre that should be operational by the end of 2010 and which has been billed as the country's first eco-friendly data...

So will Google’s greatly debated floating data centres come to fruition, or is their attempt to file a patent nothing more than a pipe dream? Well, if it were to make it from the drawing board to the high seas, there is an...