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Geospatial Technologies and Energy Conservation

June 23rd, 2008 No Comments

Geospatial technologies will be an integral in providing services for energy conservation. An obvious application will be related to vehicle navigation, devices such as the Dash Express will allow cars to travel more efficiently and spend less time in traffic.
Additonally, as alternative fuel sources (such as hydrogen and solar power) are being utilized in cars, [...]

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The Geography of Server Farms

June 2nd, 2008 No Comments

The Economist recently had an article on the evolving locations of server farms throughout the world. Since data processing and warehousing are becoming funtamental to virtually every industry , it’s becoming an essential “utility”.
While it will always be requisite for many servers to be located near population centers for speed requirements (search engine results, real-time [...]

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