Amazon is quiet when it talks about its carbon footprint of its data centers. Here is a bit of good news. AWS’s US-West (Oregon) data center is 100% carbon neutral.
Imagine if Google put a data center in Hangar One at Moffett Field (humor)
Mercury news covers a Google subsidiary taking over the maintenance of Hangar One at Moffett Field.
Google to restore Hangar One and operate runways at Moffett Field
Hangar One at Moffett Field, 2011. (Mercury News)MOUNTAIN VIEW -- After designing driverless cars, experimenting with robots and secretly building a fleet of barges, Google is taking on a new challenge: running an airfield in the heart of Silicon Valley and restoring one of the area's most iconic buildings, once used to house Navy blimps.
Imagine what kind of data center Google put in the hangar. The super structure looks like it could be the basis for a new rack system. :-)
Google's plans for the Moffett airfield are unclear, although the agreement could allow limited commercial development, or possibly a museum or education center at the hangar site. The company declined to comment, saying only that it wants to "preserve the heritage of Moffett Federal Airfield."
A view of working in Amazon's IT group vs. Google
We have all seen when people have sent an e-mail that copied the whole company. Thanks to social networking, you can now make same mistake magnitudes worse by sharing to the public vs. your company.
Here is a post by a Google engineer that has been published on another google plus site on his comparison of amazon vs. google.
Rip Rowan
Shared publicly - Oct 12, 2011Steve Yegge originally shared:
Steve responds well and adds another point on how wicked smart Jeff Bezos is.
Bezos is so goddamned smart that you have to turn it into a game for him or he’ll be bored and annoyed with you. That was my first realization about him. Who knows how smart he was before he became a billionaire -- let’s just assume it was “really frigging smart”, since he did build Amazon from scratch. But for years he’s had armies of people taking care of everything for him. He doesn’t have to do anything at all except dress himself in the morning and read presentations all day long. So he’s really, REALLY good at reading presentations. He’s like the Franz Liszt of sight-reading presentations.
So you have to start tearing out whole paragraphs, or even pages, to make it interesting for him. He will fill in the gaps himself without missing a beat. And his brain will have less time to get annoyed with the slow pace of your brain.
I mean, imagine what it would be like to start off as an incredibly smart person, arguably a first-class genius, and then somehow wind up in a situation where you have a general’s view of the industry battlefield for ten years. Not only do you have more time than anyone else, and access to more information than anyone else, you also have this long-term eagle-eye perspective that only a handful of people in the world enjoy.
In some sense you wouldn’t even be human anymore. People like Jeff are better regarded as hyper-intelligent aliens with a tangential interest in human affairs.
One Simple Reason why Open Compute Project works, An Executive Visionary - Frank Frankovsky
When you think of the technical companies in our industry you can’t help, but think of the founders - Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Larry Ellison, Larry and Sergey, Zuckerberg, etc.
Organizations that are trying to drive change in the industry that host conferences can be viewed in the same way. The successful ones have founders as key figures. Seybold Conferences worked because of Jonathan Seybold. GigaOm works because of Om Malik. Tim O’Reilly.
And, Open Compute Project works because of Frank Frankovsky.
Where would Open Compute be without Frank? Probably just an idea of what could be done.
Here is Frank’s opening keynote at OCP V.
Funny beats Serious, @sochiproblems 282k vs @sochi2014 175k
Whenever someone asks me about creating a viral marketing campaign I tell them that funny things almost always beat serious things.
Here is one example Twitter handle @sochi2014 has 282K followers, started on Feb 4 (3 days ago) with 193 tweets.
The @sochi2014 twitter handle has 175K followers, created long time ago, with 4,808 tweets
Here is the story of the guy who is behind @sochiproblems.
@SochiProblems mastermind revealed: student Alex Broad
Popular Twitter account by Centennial College journalism student captures myriad of problems at Sochi Games
Take an unusually slow day in a Toronto college journalism school newsroom, and a journalism student with a love of sports. Now add controversy over the 2014 Sochi Olympic preparations, and some social media.
What you end up with is @SochiProblems. The Twitter account is the brainchild of Alexander (Alex) Broad, 20, a journalism major at Centennial College in Toronto, and a contributor to the program’s newspaper, TorontoObserver.ca.
COURTESY ALEXANDER BROAD
Alexander Broad, founder of @SochiProblems, digging out from Wednesday’s snowfall in Pickering, Ont.
Broad himself was unprepared to see his creation, launched Tuesday Feb. 4, as a Twitter account called@SochiProblems, become so popular. In only three days it has already attracted more than 240,000 followers ranging from ordinary Canadians, to well known personalities in the media, to athletes, current and retired.
