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More on green server farms: eBay’s turn

Jeff Horwich May 11, 2012

Yesterday we gave props to Microsoft for making its business units (including cloud computing) go carbon neutral. Turns out eBay is also an example to look to, managing to somehow maintain an extremely energy-efficient server farm even in the heat of Phoenix.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/green/5-green-data-center-tips-from-ebays-project-mercury/21188

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