Efficient data centers are key to managing the cost of running a massive computing operation such as Google’s, but they also seems to tie into the search giant’s “Don’t be evil” credo. That’s the sense I got when interviewing Bill Weihl, Google’s green energy czar.…
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Green:Net: Here's What We Learned About IT
Advances in computing and communications are changing the world -- enabling huge changes in the way we can develop new materials and derive energy, but as they bring innovation to other areas of the economy those providing the computation and bandwidth must become more efficient.…
Read MoreGreen:Net Launchpad: ecoATM and Soneter Win
The Green:Net launchpad event showcases 10 startups or new products hand-picked by the Earth2Tech staff. The judges selected ecoATM as the winner, with People Power and Soneter tied for second, while Soneter won the audience choice award.…
Read MoreGreen:Net: Investors See Opportunity in Smart Grid, Metering
At Green:Net today, venture capitalists said that there was opportunity for money to be made by companies focusing on metering and smart grid technologies. But they also identified some other opportunities.…
Read MoreGreen:Net: From Founding Sun to Funding Clean Power
Over the next 10-15 years we will fundamentally reinvent the structure of society said Vinod Khosla, founder of Khosla Ventures speaking today at the Green:Net conference in San Francisco. Khosla explained that he's now investing in areas that two years ago he would never have considered.…
Read MoreGreen:Net: The Dematerialization Opportunity
Jonathan Koomey of the Lawrence Berkeley Lab and Stanford is one of the world's reigning experts on "dematerialization," which he defines as two things. First, "removing the need to create a physical product." And second, "the energy savings associated with not having to transport that product."…
Read MoreGreen:Net: Carbon Gives a 'Lens Into Inefficiency'
Carbon pricing will become an important part of corporate accounting. But pricing aside, executives at today's Green:Net conference said that carbon software can give companies a view into other inefficiencies in their operations.…
Read MoreGreen:Net: Innovating to Reduce Energy Consumption of Computing
As information technology begins to improve energy efficiency in other industries such as transportation and electricity generation, it will grow to consume ever more energy, forcing IT providers to be even more concerned about enegry consumption said Bill Weihl, Green Energy Czar at Google.…
Read MoreGreen:Net: What's Standing in the Way of the New Networked Car
It's a testament to how exciting and likely the idea of a networked car is that a panel full of experts at Green:Net chose to focus their attention on the trials, tribulations and pitfalls of future of the automotive industry. No boosterism for us, thanks!…
Read MoreGreen:Net: How to Use Government to Promote Energy Efficiency
Before you do business in a state, you must think about what the public utilities commissions in those states are there to do, was the message for entrepreneurs and investors attending the Green:Net conference from Dian M. Grueneich, Commissioner, California Public Utility Commission.…
Read MoreGreen:Net: Greentech Innovation Comes From Computing Power, Says Bill Gross
The cost of commodities trend in one direction: up. Coal, oil, gold, even rice, it's all the same, said greentech and software pioneer Bill Gross at Earth2Tech's Green:Net conference today. "The one thing that's going down is the cost of computational power.…
Read MoreGreen:Net: Microsoft, Google Lay Out Home Metering Plans
Microsoft and Google are both working on applications for monitoring and controlling energy usage in the home. At Green:Net, the Internet giants laid out their strategies for enabling consumers and utilities to keep track of their power consumption.…
Read MoreGreen:Net: Steve Jurvetson on the Future of Greentech From an IT Pioneer
Thanks to Moore's Law, information technology over time revolutionizes more and more industries, and is currently creating trillion-dollar opportunities in the green tech industry said Steve Jurvetson, managing director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson today at the Green:Net conference in San Francisco.…
Read MoreGreen:Net: Brown Says 'Don't Look in Government' for Innovation
At Green:Net today, former California governor and 2010 gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown said you can't turn to government to drive innovation in green technology, but that it needs to work together with entrepreneurs to foster innovation.…
Read MoreGreen:Net: What Happens to the Grid When EVs Go Mainstream?
With mainstream EVs entering the market in the next year, utilities are worried about cars plugging into the grid en masse. To anticipate and handle those overwhelming spurts of power demand, they are looking to infrastructure upgrades, networked management systems and customer education.…
Read MoreGreen:Net: So the Smart Grid Will Be Huge — Now What?
The smart grid is finally being built, and with it will come hundreds of new companies and models that threaten to disrupt the way utilities currently do business, according to a panel of smart grid experts speaking today at the Green:Net conference in San Francisco.…
Read MoreGreen:Net — Live Today From San Francisco!
Green:Net, the only conference dedicated to exploring how information technology — software, computing and the web — can fight climate change, will…
Read MoreGreen:Net 2010 — Hurry, Just a Few Tickets Left!
Green:Net is almost sold out! The only conference dedicated to the intersection of IT and green has just a handful of tickets left; they’re available on a first-come, first-serve basis. GigaOM readers can get a $75 discount, so register now.…
Read MoreJoin Vinod Khosla, Jerry Brown, Google and More at Green:Net Next Week
The second annual Green:Net conference, the only event that examines the intersection of greentech and IT, will be held next Thursday, April 29th at the Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco -- exactly one week from today. GigaOM readers get $75 off!…
Read MoreCountdown to Green:Net 2010 — Just 2 Weeks Left!
Green:Net 2010 will see top green entrepreneurs, technologists and market-leading companies convene on April 29th in San Francisco. Register now for the conference where you can meet with thought leaders, technologists, investors, press, new startups and their future customers and get $75 off your ticket!…
Read MoreCalling Internet Entrepreneurs! A Greentech Conference for You
The intersection of the Internet and the greentech boom represents an incredible opportunity. Green:Net 2010 will see top green entrepreneurs, technologists and market-leading companies convene on April 29th in San Francisco.…
Read MoreGreen:Net: Why We Need Computing & the Internet for a Green Economy
Exactly one month from now — on April 29th — California gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown, uber-investors Vinod Khosla and Steve Jurvetson, Google’s Green Energy Czar Bill Weihl, CPUC Commissioner Dian Grueneich and many, many others will take the stage at our annual Green:Net conference.…
Read MoreJerry Brown and Vinod Khosla to Speak at Green:Net 2010
We at the GigaOM Network are proud to announce that 2010 California gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown and leading greentech investor Vinod Khosla will be speaking at Green:Net 2010 on April 29th at the Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco.…
Read MoreEnter the Green:Net Startup Launchpad Now! Friday Is the Final Day for Submissions
Have you been cooking up a great business idea for how to use IT to fight climate change? You need to enter our Green:Net 2010 Launchpad! We’re only accepting submissions until 5 p.m. PT on Friday, so make sure you and your colleagues enter soon.…
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